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

[Thorsten Meyer]

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> 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.
>   
Actually, perl seems to be available in the MSYS supplementary tools.
See here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=67879.


Apart from that: is your concern only about availability of perl or
maybe also about adding risc of compatibility  issues in the build
process or general maintainability of the build process?

regards

Thorsten