[sgarland]

Did you miss the post a few above yours, where an author of this tool explained why it’s written in Perl? Introducing a new language dependency for a build, especially of an OS, is not something you undertake lightly.

[nukem222]

Right. Good luck finding people who want to maintain that. It just seems incredibly short-sighted unless the current batch of maintainers intend to live forever.

[sgarland]

Counterpoint: if someone knows Perl, they are much more likely to have the requisite skills to be a maintainer for a distro. It’s self-selection.

Imagine the filtering required for potential maintainers if they rewrote the packaging to JS.