On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> Autoconf already uses perl to convert configure.ac into configure. I ... >> rather than sh. But what would it buy us? sh is more portable than perl >> (as measured by the number of platforms where it is included as part of n ... > Perl is also quite rapidly losing popularity to other scripting languages > such as Python and Ruby. There was an over five year span without a Perl Popularity shouldn't be a metric here, in that case sh would would lose, too. Anyhow, I would like to be able to use Perl (or any other language) if it is found during the configure process. Regards, -Tom _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
