Remove Perl dependency
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Aaditya Dubey April 20, 2023 at 4:54 AM
Hi @Marcos Albe,
Thank you for the report.
Sending the concern to engineering for further review and updates.
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Created April 10, 2023 at 11:12 PM
Updated January 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Hello devs,
XtraBackup has a dependency on Perl packages, which is then only ever used by this code: https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup/blob/8.0/storage/innobase/xtrabackup/src/backup_copy.cc#L2612 that performs a version check before taking the backup.
Perl is a rather heavy dependency (think Docker images) and it looks like replacing this functionality with native C/C++ calls should be possible, and hopefully not too hard.
Hope the request makes sense!
Best,
Marcos