[GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Glynn wrote:
>>>>> Maybe we should use the Python version from 7.0? Many users
>>>>> will want Python anyhow, whereas Perl is only used for
>>>>> g.html2man.
...
> Martin:
>>> OK, anyway I would vote to replace Perl script in 6.5.
...
> actually now that I think about it, this is much more of a
> shift in policy and I'm not sure if we should think about it
> for 6.5 either.
>
> Remember that currently python is not a mandatory build dep for
> GRASS 6.x.

Good point.

> Also AFAIK python does not come preinstalled on e.g. debian as
> a base package, but perl does.

Well, but Debian is not the gold standard (sorry). On other systems
it does.

> So we are making python a mandatory build dep for ... getting
> man(1) pages working on MS Windows ?? seems very dis-
> proportionate to me.

I darkly remember a new GUI :)

But I agree that Python is not a mandatory build dep for GRASS 6.x.

Markus