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On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 08:26:24PM -0700, Jason Riedy wrote:
> Plus, alas, Perl modules and Python version drift can be a bit
> of a problem on the same semi-pristine (or unmaintained, or
> too-stable) systems, so shell isn't the only thing that needs to
> go.  And that'll take a good deal of effort.

The Perl used in core-git is pretty forgiving of older versions of Perl,
back to at least 5.6.  (Going back to 5.005.003 is rather painful,
however, to be honest.)

The only major tool I can think of that has embedded Perl in the shell
script is format-patch.  That could probably be redone in pure Perl if
it would help.