From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
Message-Id: <200104110805.KAA16820@lws256.lu.erisoft.se>
Subject: Re: New language for autoconf
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:05:52 +0200 (MET DST)
In-Reply-To: <CAEGKOHJKAAFPKOCLHDIMEFECCAA.tim.van.holder@pandora.be> from "Tim Van Holder" at Apr 10, 2001 08:28:25 PM
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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.

In that case: perl, perl, perl. Not python. Don't know Guile so no
comment on that.

However the amount of ported packages from me is zero, so I guess that
gives my vote zero weight.


Right,

						MartinS