Re: Why do we have perl and sed versions of Gen_dummy_probes?

Hi,

On 2021-05-06 00:18:12 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> > I understand why we don't want to rely on sed because of windows - but
> > it's far from obvious why we can't just use the .pl variant all the
> > time?
> 
> Perl is not considered a hard build requirement on non-Windows.

Oops, forgot that.


> We could dodge that by shipping a pre-built dummy probes.h,
> but that doesn't really seem like a cleaner way than what's
> there now.

I tried to regenerate Gen_dummy_probes.pl using s2p - which doesn't seem
to exist for modern versions of perl anymore :(


> Also, as I read it, Gen_dummy_probes.sed is useful in any case as
> being the "source code" for Gen_dummy_probes.pl.  You'd need some
> other form of documentation if you removed it.

:/

Greetings,

Andres Freund