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Subject: Re: Make, Scripts, Shell, Perl!?
From: [email protected] (Richard Wolff)
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 08:35:23 -0700
> As everyone noticed who has been following this thread so far,
> we are getting closer and closer to a language-war ;-)

I hope not

> Can Python or TCL or ? really do what Perl does?
> * Who is willing to demonstrate that?
> * Who will rewite at least the essential scripts
>         tools/installEpics.pl
>         include/makeEpicsVersion.pl
>         libCom/bldEnvData.pl
>         libCom/makeStatSymTbl.pl
>         sequencer/makeVersion.pl
>   in whatever (s)he likes so that these new scripts
>   work on both UNIX and Windows?
> 
> I have rewritten the ones listed above in Perl and I can now
> build EPICS on sun4 and WIN32 using gnumake and Perl.
> (A shell is still needed for some remaining shell-lines in Makefiles,
>  I emilinated the need for all other UNIX-tools that were listed above).

Hmmm...looks like a suitable challenge here.  I'll try to do something
on this with Python in the next week, after the current bits of chaos
around here are scheduled to subside.


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