[syslinux] isohybrid has 2 variants

Ian Bannerman ian at internals.io
Sat Jun 21 08:49:51 PDT 2014


>What I reminder from it:
>
 > The first "isohybrid" was in perl.
 > But that made perl a run-time dependency.
>
 > A compiled version of "isohybrid" removed that
 > run-time dependency on perl.
>
>
>What I think of it:
>
 > The Perl variant of isohybrid should be removed
 > from the source tree.






One advantage of the Perl one for me is that I can run it on Windows. I had trouble with the binary one in Cygwin, but the Perl version worked well.







--Ian


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