Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: avoid open "-|" list form for Perl 5.6
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Feb 23, 2006, 13:29 UTC
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Alex Riesen wrote:
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> On 2/23/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote: > >>Not to be unhelpful or anything, but activestate perl seems to be quite >>a lot of bother. Is it worth supporting it? > > > It's not activestate perl actually. It's only one platform it also > _has_ to support. > Is it worth supporting Windows?
With or without cygwin? With cygwin, I'd say "yes, unless it makes things terribly difficult to maintain and so long as we don't take performance hits on unices". Without cygwin, I'd say "What? It runs on windows?".
If we claim to support windows but do a poor job of it, no-one else will start working on a windows-port. If we don't claim to support windows but say that "it's known to work with cygwin, although be aware of these performance penalties...", eventually someone will come along with their shiny Visual Express and hack up support for it, even if some tools will be missing and others unnecessarily complicated.
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