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Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @example in docstrings
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dbateman |
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Re: [changeset] don't remove whitespace within @example in docstrings |
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Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:06:50 +0100 |
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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.
Cheers
David