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by ge0rg 5271 days ago
As was already stated: it isn't really given that users will already have perl installed.

The usual workaround for such situations is to add the preprocessed files into source control as well, so they are available when a user is building the code. However, this ends up even more ugly.

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None of that has to do with build system complexity.