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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:12:56PM +0000, Tim Hutt wrote:
> 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

Never said that perl should be a core dependency. The idea is that
I can't blame an utility writer to have chosen the right language for
the job. And AFAIK perl isn't too bad on windows (tried activeperl eons
ago, worked fine)

> perlcc to convert it to C, but a manual line-by-line conversion would be
> much better. Not difficult, just tedious.

Then better do it in python :P at least string primitives are saner!

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