| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Robert Lor <Robert(dot)Lor(at)sun(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Enable probes to work with Mac OS X Leopard and other OSes that |
| Date: | 2008-03-19 01:28:50 |
| Message-ID: | 15821.1205890130@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> What is adding Perl in practice?
> For one thing, a moving target.
Well, if we were that afraid of Perl version discrepancies, we shouldn't
be using it at all anywhere. My point was just that we should not add
a new build tool dependency without a darn good reason; and something
you can easily do in sed doesn't qualify as a darn good reason.
regards, tom lane
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