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Date:      Tue, 7 May 2002 16:29:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <200205072329.g47NTFYC001336@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200205072241.g47Mf0jV002339@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200205072309.g47N9JA2001180@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
:>     The base utility issue is mainly:
:> 
:> 	makewhatis, catman, sockstat, whereis, which, adduser, rmuser, kbdmap, pkg_update
:
:catman is a joke, it should be an option to man(1).
:sockstat is being rewritten in C
:which is a C program and has been for ~2 years
:adduser is pretty straightforward and can be rewritten in sh or C
:rmuser is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh
:kbdmap is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in C
:pkg_update is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh
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:DES
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:Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

    Well, ok... but the real issue here is not how easy it would be to 
    rewrite these utilities, but who will actually rewrite them and
    when it will get done.  If there are people lined up to do the
    work then great!  We can move ahead with idea #3.  But if it isn't
    likely to be done in the time frame Mark is thinking about it
    might be best not to depend on the work getting done and going
    with something like the miniperl idea as a temporary stopgap.  The
    nice thing about the miniperl idea is that it works great as a
    temporary stopgap.. since only system utilities would use the
    binary, when the last system utility is rewritten the miniperl
    could simply be removed from the system entirely without affecting
    anything or anyone.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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