Re: pg_upgrade project status

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 04:23:18PM +0100, Harald Armin Massa 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.
> >
> > Much more reasonable than Korn shell in any case (or any shell for that
> > matter; I think anything is going to be more of a potentially painful
> > platform dependency than Perl).
> >
> 
> May I humbly recommend to rewrite in Python? That should be as
> difficult / easy as PERL, AND there is a very robust py2exe
> implementation, which allows to create a single .exe file which
> contains everything.
> 
> Python is present on all Linux, Windows users are totally comfortable
> with .exe files.
> 
> Harald
> 
> 
Great idea, perl2exe is available as well and will allow the continued use
of perl for our internal scripting language.

Cheers,
Ken