| From: | Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
|---|---|
| To: | Harald Armin Massa <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_upgrade project status |
| Date: | 2009-01-27 16:25:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20090127162508.GD1961@it.is.rice.edu |
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:23:18PM +0100, Harald Armin Massa wrote:
> > I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually. It
> > doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade;
> > actually it looks a very reasonable one.
> >
> > Much more reasonable than Korn shell in any case (or any shell for that
> > matter; I think anything is going to be more of a potentially painful
> > platform dependency than Perl).
> >
>
> May I humbly recommend to rewrite in Python? That should be as
> difficult / easy as PERL, AND there is a very robust py2exe
> implementation, which allows to create a single .exe file which
> contains everything.
>
> Python is present on all Linux, Windows users are totally comfortable
> with .exe files.
>
> Harald
>
>
Great idea, perl2exe is available as well and will allow the continued use
of perl for our internal scripting language.
Cheers,
Ken
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