Re: [CFT] Shell functionization patch (if you don't know what that means, it's faster Autoconf and leaner configure scripts)

[Tom Browder]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
>>
>> Autoconf already uses perl to convert configure.ac into configure.  I
...
>> rather than sh.  But what would it buy us?  sh is more portable than perl
>> (as measured by the number of platforms where it is included as part of n
...
> Perl is also quite rapidly losing popularity to other scripting languages
> such as Python and Ruby.  There was an over five year span without a Perl

Popularity shouldn't be a metric here, in that case sh would would lose, too.

Anyhow, I would like to be able to use Perl (or any other language) if
it is found during the configure process.

Regards,

-Tom