Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?
Date: 2021-05-07 17:36:32
Message-ID: 20210507173632.q4isyyg3b6y6ski2@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

On 2021-05-06 11:13:28 +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
>
> > I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem
> > to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :(
>
> It still exists, it's just not part of the core Perl distribution any
> more (since 5.22, released in 2015):
>
> https://metacpan.org/pod/perl5220delta#find2perl,-s2p-and-a2p-removal
> https://metacpan.org/release/App-s2p.

Oh, I got confused because the cpan link at the top of
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.6.2/s2p is dead, and because I forgot all I
knew about perl a long time ago.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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