Re: Perl in internals (was Re: A bit off topic---Java as "SUN's language" (was Re: Java implementation))

[Dave Peticolas]

> It's been rumoured that James A. Treacy said:
> > > However, I wonder----could we mitigate the problems you describe by allow
> ing
> > > users who don't want it to turn off the option at compile time, and by be
> ing
> > > careful to control what access is given to the scripting language?
> 
> The problem with perl was that it caused all sorts of install headaches
> for newbies (it required swig, and also required eperl) and since
> stock redhat/debian didn't have these, it was just a long frustrating
> story.

Are there plans for phasing out the eperl stuff and using
something else for report generation?

dave

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