Re: pg_upgrade project status

Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>> I think it's fairly easy to install Perl on Windows actually.  It
>> doesn't sound too onerous a requirement if you want in-place upgrade;
>> actually it looks a very reasonable one.

> There are installers for it, but given that we made a point of porting
> everything to C to avoid using any scripting languages on end-user
> machines when we ported to Windows, it seems strange to relax that
> 'policy' now for convenience.

Indeed.  We might put up with a perl script for awhile for the sake of
development expediency, but the long-term expectation would have to be
that someone would rewrite it in C.  Given that, I wonder whether
there's much point in a rewrite into Perl if we already have a working
shell script.  I suppose someone will say "but you'll get no testing
from Windows users then..."
        regards, tom lane