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Assuming Python or Perl are installed by default in any server is an invite to a world of pain. At least that's my anecdotal experience.

• qalmakka 5y ago
  I've seen instances of some Unix systems not having Perl installed, but that's very rare. Basically everything directly or indirectly depends on Perl, so you really have to run your scripts on a minimal install of RHEL of FreeBSD with 0 ports in order to get into such a situation.
  • mst 5y ago
    And for that situation you can always break out http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl. Plus of course if you want to use (pure perl) cpan dependencies I wrote http://p3rl.org/App::FatPacker http://p3rl.org/App::FatPacker and http://p3rl.org/Object::Remote http://p3rl.org/Object::Remote to make that easier.
    • thatwasunusual 5y ago
      > And for that situation you can always break out http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl. Why do you link to p3rl.org? And, more importantly, why do you link to something that doesn't exist?
  • cfeliped 5y ago
    Many container base images won't have perl by default (e.g: alpine). For servers it's less common, but enterprise systems never cease to amuse me.
    • qalmakka 5y ago
      Most container base images are often so barebone you can't really count on them containing anything. For instance, on an Alpine image you can't count on bash.
• thatwasunusual 5y ago
  Why?