[MPlayer-dev-eng] latest CVS

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 11:00:14AM +0300, Nick Kurshev wrote:
> Hello, Fredrik!
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:20:01 +0100 you wrote:
> 
[snip]
> > The script works with nawk but not with awk on that computer. Why not use perl
> > instead? If we use perl we won't have to tell users to get gawk, nawk or mawk
> > if their awk didn't work.
> > 
> I think that not everyone has perl installed on computer.
> Although, I'm not expert of perl - I guess that perl might cause the same number
> of problems and even more.

Not everyone has perl but a lot of people do. And there is only one
implementation of perl so we will probably not have a lot of portability
problems. Another thing is that it is simple to check the version of a perl
binary.

Just my two cents.

/ Fredrik Kuivinen