[Monotone-devel] could we get away with requiring perl during the build, for botan's sake?

[Zack Weinberg]

I noticed yesterday while updating AUTHORS that our copy of Botan is
way out of date.  The newer version has some nice things in it - for
example, tuned assembly versions of SHA1 - but the catch is, you
configure the library for the target processor etc. with a Perl
script.  I am not wanting to rewrite the thing in Autoconf.  Would
requiring a working Perl installation (it doesn't look like it needs
anything beyond a basic 5.x perl) be too much of a hindrance?

zw