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Re: Use gen-libm-test.py to generate ulps table for manual
On Aug 14 2018, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> Let me ask you: how many other packages (besides glibc) in the
> bootstrap depend on Perl? Is it within our reach, perhaps, to
> *replace* Perl with Python?
You would need to rewrite autoconf and automake in python. Also, a lot
of testsuites are using perl. Perl is ubiquitous, whereas python is
used almost nowhere.
Andreas.
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