Independence from make

[Werner Trobin]

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:44, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 April 2002 18:49, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > You missed the important one:
> > 5. Is available.
>
> I think all Linux distribs provide Ruby now, and it builds out of the box
> on all Unices.

What Rik means that it would be an additional dependency whereas Perl is on 
99.99% of all machines anyway.

6. It's faster (than /bin/sh)

Ciao,
Werner