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0 pointsSoftTalker9mo ago0 comments

Same with Python. It's mostly available, but sometimes not.

With Perl, I find that a base installation is almost always available, but many packages might not be.

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I dunno about that. IME, python is much, much more universally installed on the hosts I've worked on. Sure, usually it's 2.7, but it's there! I've tended to work on rhel and debian hosts, with some fedora in the mix.

(Once had a coworker reject a PR I wrote because I included a bash builtin in a deployment script. He said that python is more likely to be installed than bash, so we should not use bash. These debates are funny sometimes.)

saghm8mo ago

Interesting, in my experience perl ends up pulled in as a dependency for one thing or another most of the time, but I don't have that perception about Python. Maybe there's just something I use that pulls in perl without me realizing and it's biased my experience.

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0 pointsSoftTalker9mo ago0 comments

Same with Python. It's mostly available, but sometimes not.

With Perl, I find that a base installation is almost always available, but many packages might not be.

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chaps9mo ago

saghm8mo ago

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