Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 00:51:12 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> 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: <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > sockstat is being rewritten in C Yes, regardless of the status of perl. :-) > adduser is pretty straightforward and can be rewritten in sh or C > rmuser is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh These should be sh wrappers around 'pw useradd' and 'pw userdel'. There is no need to reinvent pw(8) in perl as well. > pkg_update is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh pkg_update should probably be cvs rm'ed and replaced by the portupgrade package from the ports collection. As for perl itself, I have 100% changed my views on it. I was once firmly in the 'perl must be in the base' camp, but I now think it should be a port where we can do a proper job of it. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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