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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:58:47 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl pathnames.h perl.c
Message-ID:  <200208220958.g7M9wl610735@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <20020822112151.A17650@uriah.heep.sax.de> from Joerg Wunsch at "Aug 22, 2002 11:21:51 am"

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> As Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> > Does the continued maintenance of this utility mean that those of us
> > who objected to its existence have lost, or is it still just an interim
> > solution that might not exist in 5.0-RELEASE?
> 
> Since i don't know who objected and with which arguments they
> did, i cannot say. ;-)
> 
> Anyway, upon seeing the current /usr/bin/perl, i thought it to
> be a Good Idea.  Since virtually all Unix-like operating systems
> these days (with FreeBSD being the exception now) ship Perl as
> /usr/bin/perl, it makes the script well portable to have a
> redirector there.  We've got so many other redirectors (MTA,
> binutils -> ELF/COFF etc.), why not keep /usr/bin/perl as well?

Well I must say that I prefer not to have the perl redirector. I
just do "use.perl port" after I install the port / package. Then
when I do install perl 5.8, I don't end up with pieces of the
director calling itself perl5.6.1 and confusing configure scripts
that try to figure out what you have. I have also been using
the NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yes in /etc/make.conf.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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