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Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 11:44:50 -0700
- Subject: Re: Base 64-bit Cygwin now requires Perl?
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On 1/13/2014 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
In retrospect, it would have potentially made sense to use the same
versions and packaging for the 64-bit as for the 32-bit. That might
have minimized this type of problem.
An argument could be made that since these helper programs are not core
to groff's mission, groff does not literally *depend* on Perl. That is,
if Perl is missing, groff doesn't stop running.
That argument feels lawyerly to me, though.
If the scripts are extracted into a separate package, I'll be installing
it. I wish I'd known about groffer long ago.
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