From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 11:07:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C931E16A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:07:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2out.barnet.com.au (mail2out.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53FF43D2F; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:07:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail2out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 27) id 864F5707464; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:07:01 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <41FCBFD5000148A1AEFAB1@BarNet> Received: from mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (mail2.barnet.com.au [202.83.176.13]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B60707463; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:07:00 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (edwin-3.int.barnet.com.au [10.10.12.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Certificate Authority" (verified OK)) by mail2-auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17316707458; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:07:00 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E4B64612A; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:06:58 +1100 (EST) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:06:58 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Kirill Ponomarew Message-ID: <20050130110658.GD1209@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Kirill Ponomarew , Holger Kipp , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, perl@freebsd.org, Scott Long , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <41FC75E9.3060601@freebsd.org> <20050130104732.GA30800@intserv.int1.b.intern> <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050130105323.GB62253@voodoo.oberon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Holger Kipp cc: Scott Long cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:07:03 -0000 On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:53:23AM +0100, Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:47:32AM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: > > > I'm fine with this plan for 6-CURRENT. For 5-STABLE, it's a major > > > user-visible change, and that is something that we promised to avoid > > > with stable branches. > > > > It violates POLA on 5-STABLE, and it will violate POLA on 6-CURRENT, > > especially as most perl programmers assume /usr/bin/perl to be the > > correct path. > > If it's linux tradition to put perl in this path, perl programmers > should assume another path on FreeBSD, so it isn't an argument for > the proposed change. Long before I ever saw FreeBSD or Linux, there were symlinks on the AIX, SunOS and Solaris machines from /usr/bin/perl pointing to the right executables. It's not a Linux-ism, it's like what somebody already pointed out, best practice for Perl. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/