Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:51 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/tools vnode_if.awk Message-ID: <p05101414b8a560feee67@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> References: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org> <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com>
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At 7:26 AM +0000 3/1/02, Paul Richards wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:20, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > Log: > > Return vnode_if back to its AWK roots. > > It became a Perl script in rev 1.20. This removes one more > > dependence on perl for the kernel build. > >Is there an "official" policy about what's happening with Perl in our >tree? > >Personally. I think it would be a mistake for FreeBSD to move away >from using Perl. It's now standard in a lot of operating systems and >far from moving away we should probably be making more use of it. There have been several threads on why it is a problem for perl to be used as part of the system-building process (such as building kernels). It is particularly painful when bringing up freebsd on some new hardware platform. Removing perl from the system-build process is not the same as removing it from freebsd. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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