ron minnich wrote:
I just don't want to see us return to the days of tons of perl code in the Makefiles. We made deliberate changes to the new config tool to eliminate the need for that stuff. When I first cut over to the new config tool I was quite surprised at the difference in build time for linuxbios -- all those Perl invocations are expensive.
You realize you are talking about God's Language :-)). Anyway, I think as many sins could just as easily be committed in bash, I wouldn't necessarily hang it all on Perl. IMHO.
-Steve