Hi, On 2021-05-06 00:18:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > > I understand why we don't want to rely on sed because of windows - but > > it's far from obvious why we can't just use the .pl variant all the > > time? > > Perl is not considered a hard build requirement on non-Windows.
Oops, forgot that. > We could dodge that by shipping a pre-built dummy probes.h, > but that doesn't really seem like a cleaner way than what's > there now. I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :( > Also, as I read it, Gen_dummy_probes.sed is useful in any case as > being the "source code" for Gen_dummy_probes.pl. You'd need some > other form of documentation if you removed it. :/ Greetings, Andres Freund
