From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 8:59:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DAA337B41B for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:59:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g41FxTdQ017991; Wed, 1 May 2002 16:59:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g41FxTXX017990; Wed, 1 May 2002 16:59:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g41FucoI039924; Wed, 1 May 2002 16:56:38 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205011556.g41FucoI039924@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: "Vadim Konovalov" Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? References: <016d01c1f0f2$169d3d40$d25cc3d9@vad> In-Reply-To: <016d01c1f0f2$169d3d40$d25cc3d9@vad> ; from "Vadim Konovalov" "Wed, 01 May 2002 13:25:02 +0400." Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 16:56:38 +0100 From: Mark Murray 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 > > I'm not sure that is acceptable. I believe that perl 5.8.0 will be > > +- 45 MB. I cannot afford to import all of that - I'd get lynched. > > that is price, for example, for Unicode. > Okay, when many platforms will be doing stripping their tools, everyone > should remember where his perl programs are able to run and where they are > not and require additional dowloading. (I remember how I was disappointed > that Redhat linux distribution did not contained Tk in its distribution, > even for optional installation. It was a pain to rebuild) > > For me, nowadays 45MB is nothing compared to medium HDD capacity, and even > my POCKET PC will easily accomodate it... 45 MB is fine as a port - we have ports that are way bigger than that. As part of the base OS? Nope. The only functionality that we _need_ is the basic language - effectively miniperl. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message