From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: New language for autoconf
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 20:28:25 +0200
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> [...]
> > So I'd like to know what your thoughts on this are. Is
> > Perl acceptable, or would Python or Guile be preferred?
> 
> AFAIK, of the above only Perl is available as a DJGPP port. And automake
> already uses Perl, anyway, so at least it wouldn't put an _additional_ 
> burden on most maintainers. Thus, I'd think Perl is the right choice.
> 
I know Perl is the only one currently available for DJGPP, but I have
both Python and Guile sitting on my HD just waiting to be ported :-)
Python seems fairly easy, while Guile looks to be a challenge.  So my
question was as much about personal language preference than anything.

Also, is anyone working on a DJGPP package for the recently released perl
5.6.1?  If not, I'll try to find the time to apply the changes I made to
5.6.0 and get a package done.