From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C52C2B9F4 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9068F610A3 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233773AbhFSGI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:08:58 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com ([173.228.157.52]:62249 "EHLO pb-smtp20.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S233627AbhFSGI6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:08:58 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp20.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD5A129183; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:06:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=6rS4HPsiwzmfEW9syKWxW+APyGbJ6EnmiFqxda zozVw=; b=F7SmpRCn0R8DL8gLwAFGdiTnEQiUBXyVPZ5o73XiQf1NQDhOPTa+pa NrYwZz5ibyTYQk8MQB0XqR68RQbd69ZjiFKHiYmc94e2DzsbOmfxbKQGDXouFUAS pq6APVHC+VzgYGwkHV1SxkigWfGr8CwbHn7l0GjEA3x8/PavZ3f18= Received: from pb-smtp20.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12ABB129182; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:06:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.196.36.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp20.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4EAF3129181; Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:06:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Eric Sunshine Cc: SZEDER =?utf-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor?= , =?utf-8?B?w4Z2?= =?utf-8?B?YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason , Git List , Emily Shaffer , Jeff Hostetler , Johannes Schindelin , Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] hook-list.h: add a generated list of hooks, like config-list.h References: <20210618170550.GE6312@szeder.dev> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2021 15:06:42 +0900 In-Reply-To: (Eric Sunshine's message of "Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:50:44 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 85E3D8EA-D0C4-11EB-8936-D5C30F5B5667-77302942!pb-smtp20.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Eric Sunshine writes: > That's a good point and not an idle question. It wasn't all that long > ago that I rewrote `generate-cmdlist` in Perl and got a complaint that > the Git project was no longer buildable on FreeBSD[1], with the result > that I ended up re-implementing it (again) in shell[2]. > > [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/loom.20150814T171757-901@post.gmane.org/ > [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/1440365469-9928-1-git-send-email-sunshine@sunshineco.com/ If it works without Perl, I would not complain too much, but NO_PERL is purely about the execution environment (i.e. do not build and/or install what requires Perl at runtime), so the old complaint [1] misses the point, I would have to say. We do expect a working Perl in test enviroment to run test suite, for example.