From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 9 5:33:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ABF937B404; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 05:33:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0011.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.11] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17H1sT-0003Ip-00; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 05:33:01 -0700 Message-ID: <3D034AD8.F5EA3DDD@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 05:32:24 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: Anton Berezin , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Head's up: NO_PERL -> NO_PERL_WRAPPER References: <3D032261.8CB94725@FreeBSD.org> <20020609105353.GD25520@heechee.tobez.org> <3D033825.C024679E@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton wrote: > Anton Berezin wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:39:45AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > > > Per discussion with various folks, including Mark, I've moved the > > > NO_PERL knob over to NO_PERL_WRAPPER, and documented same. Given that > > > this is a fundamentally different thing than the old perl knobs, my > > > opinion is that we don't need to provide compatibility, but I won't > > > argue that point too strongly. > > > > The compatibility is a moot point either way, since there was no NO_PERL > > knob - it used to be called NOPERL. > > It's NOPERL in -stable, but it was NO_PERL in -current when I changed it > to NO_PERL_WRAPPER. If we are expressing preferences, I prefer that it be called: NO_WE_CHANGE_THE_NAME_SO_YOU_GET_PERL_ANYWAY_`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"` Just so that the name matches it's *real* function, which is apparently to make sure that whatever variable you set to avoid getting perl last time is totally ineffective in preventing you getting perl this time. I personally just consider it an unsubtle means of perl advocacy... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message