Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:57:59 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <3D9CAF57.4F8BE24D@mindspring.com> References: <3632.1033651189@critter.freebsd.dk> <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20021003191753.GA56857@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Well, playing the devil's advocate -- isn't this the type of discussion the > > preceeded the introduction of Perl into the base system, the introduction of > > which created such a mess that we finally took Perl out of the base system > > in -CURRENT? > > The created mess that caused us to take Perl out of the base system is > that it cannot be cross built. This library is C/C++ code; so we can > easily cross compile it. I thought cross-building was a side issue to the fact that the system Perl was seen by Perl advocates as being "incomplete", for lacking things like CGI libraries, etc.. I remember the CGI stuff specifically, because there was a complaint of some "standard Perl code from CPAN" which would not run under FreeBSD's version of Perl. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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