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[Tim Hutt <tdhutt@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's quite a pain to get perl on Windows, and adding another dependency
makes building and distributing it more of a pain. You could maybe use
perlcc to convert it to C, but a manual line-by-line conversion would be
much better. Not difficult, just tedious.

On 9 December 2014 at 07:22, Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 10:31:03AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> > but at least that would be a start.  I don't know that Perl code has any
> > place in the KiCad source.
>
> Sorry to disappoint but for that kind of things perl is better suited
> than python or C++ :P (or any other language I could think of)
>
> IMHO they only choose the right tool for the job (and perl is almost
> universally available, from a time well before python ever existed)
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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