Re: [Golly-test] Remove optional Perl support from Golly?

[Tomas R. <ro...@gm...>]

I'm totally fine with this.  Supporting Perl and Python
seems redundant, and clearly Python has the attention
these days.  If there are any residual Perl scripts that
need transcribing to Python I can take that on.

Actually I'm quite a lot in favor of it, to tell the truth.

-tom

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 6:54 PM Andrew Trevorrow <and...@gm...>
wrote:

> It's currently possible to build a version of Golly that supports
> running Perl scripts.  I doubt anybody is actually doing that
> these days, especially given the problems we had trying to
> keep up with ABI changes whenever a new version of Perl
> was released, so I'd like to remove ALL Perl-related code.
>
> This will simplify quite a lot of code, especially when Golly
> tries to detect what type of script to run when the user
> selects File > Run Clipboard. (Currently you can get a silly
> message about Perl if you accidentally have RLE data
> in the clipboard.)
>
> Anybody here use Perl with Golly, or know someone who does?
> Any objections to removing Perl as an option?
>
> Andrew
>
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