[Setup-tool-hackers] Re: 2.4: System Tools - I like them

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 16:34, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Murray.Cumming@Comneon.com">
> 
> > One thought:
> > The backends are written in perl. Does this add any new or difficult
> > dependency to GNOME?
> 
> No, not really. They're written in perl because any *nix system worth its
> salt has perl already.

Any system on which you can compile GNOME has Perl.

$ head -n 1 /usr/bin/automake
#!/usr/bin/perl
$ head -n 1 /usr/bin/autoconf
#! /usr/bin/perl
$ head -n 1 /usr/bin/aclocal
#!/usr/bin/perl

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Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
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