Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @example in docstrings

[dbateman]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:57:24PM +0100, Thorsten Meyer wrote:
> > Doesn't this patch mean that the build process depends on PERL.
> > Whereas at the moment the dependency on PERL is fairly weak.. Is that
> > a good idea?
> >
> That's true. I replaced sed plus sh by perl (simply because I couldn't
> figure out a way to do it with sed). I assumed, that any system, that
> has sed would also have perl nowadays.

Windows systems don't have Perl installed, and sed I believe is part of 
the MSYS packages but not Perl. So its fairly easy to find a case where 
a Perl build dependency might be an issue.

Cheers
David