On July 21, 2004 12:47 pm, David Fetter wrote:
> Kind people,
>
> I'd like to propose that we require Perl for configuration &
> installation, rather than doing the kind of wacky machinations that
> assuming sed-only forces on benighted projects.
>
> This is not 1994, and Perl is not the rarity it was that year.
>
> We already require a fairly modern version of PostgreSQL, and
> requiring (say) Perl 5.6 or better is really not onerous.
>
> What say ye?

FreeBSD 5 has no perl in the stock install.
FreeBSD 4 has 5.005 in a stock install.

The idea that I need to install/upgrade perl just to be able to 
run ./configure does not sit well with me.

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