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Date:      Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:45:33 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber)
Cc:        paul@demon.co.uk, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perl5 modules
Message-ID:  <199702261945.TAA00656@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970226114649.25055Q-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Feb 26, 97 11:48:44 am"

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> > Why not simply bundle them all together in ports/pl/ and of course strip p5-
> > from the names. (ports/p5/ if preferred)
> 
> Need the name be so obtuse?  We may as well waste an extra couple
> bytes and call it "perl" instead of "p".
> 
> -john
> 

Exactly my first thoughts on the subject, but then some might push to move
the perl port itself into there, which would be wrong.

perl is a fine choice, so long as people understand that it is intended only
for perl5 scripts.

Adam



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