[Interest] Oops! Somebody's got a bad case of dependency bloat!

[Thiago Macieira]

On quarta-feira, 10 de abril de 2013 09.34.57, Michael Jackson wrote:
> I'd really like to know who thought that needing perl for the build was a
> good idea when not all the platforms have it as a base installed software
> package.

Perl is a standard tool in most operating systems, which also provide a 
compiler and a decent shell for free. Those people running operating systems 
that don't supply a decent set of development tools can easily download it 
from official sources.

And like Kai said, it's on the README.

Perl is not out-of-the-blue, it's not a recent language and it's not AT ALL 
obscure. I might accept those arguments for Ruby and *maybe* for Python. No, 
for Perl we don't accept it. Just install it.

ActivePerl is good.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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