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

[Benjamin Lindner]

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> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:59:46PM +0100, Thorsten Meyer wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes, but it has to be installed.
>
> > 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?
>
> My personal concern is that I always hesitate to add additional 
> dependencies.. Note that I've added quite a few myself, but I always 
> think first how I can do without them. If there is an easy way to do 
> without that doesn't introduce too much code in Octave and is just as 
> performant, then better in a general sense to go with the solution that 
> doesn't add dependencies. 
>
> Note in this case that Octave already has a dependency on Perl, which 
> I'd though was used for octave.desktop. However, its not used for that, 
> but rather to extract the error numbers and build the option handling 
> code for things like dassl. So Octave in fact already has a pretty 
> strong dependency on Perl.. So I withdraw my concern on additional 
> dependencies..
>
> Regards
> D.

If the current supplied version of perl (5.6.1) with msys is sufficient, 
I don't see a big problem requiring it to be installed when building 
octave using msys/win32.

I'm not so certain that (future) new versions will be available quickly 
for msys, so requiring them would pose some problem for building octave 
on windows using msys.

benjamin