On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Greg Hewgill wrote:
> >I fail to see the advantage here. Just as Win32 doesn't come with sh, it
> >doesn't come with perl either. So why make someone have to go and download
> >perl.exe? Why not just make them go download bash.exe?
>

There are more perl distributions available than bash. I can't get a
bash.exe for all three Alpha, IA64, or VAX OpenVMS platforms.

> Perl is arguably easier to get and install for win32 than a bourne
> shell. Also, the script would need changes anyway to detect which
> operating system it's running on, to execute the right commands
> (nmake vs make, etc). Also my testcurl.pl no longer depends on an
> external grep or sed. And when I get the actual tests running,
> perl is already required for those.

Ditto for the OpenVMS platforms.
Received on 2004-03-09