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

[William R. B. <bil...@gm...>]

Dear Reader:

I finally have an idea for the improvement of Golly.  It is, I think, a
simple request to satisfy.

It would be very nice if Golly supported 'text' in its configuration files,
like '.mc'   I would very much like to
annotate configurations, especially those that are included in Golly.  The
example given for the Partial
Constructor is rather crude.  Is there a better way available in Golly?

wrb

On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 6:58 PM Tomas Rokicki <ro...@gm...> wrote:

> 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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