From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 19:15:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA24942 for current-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:15:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA24935 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:15:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA02976 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:15:23 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id EAA04690 ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 04:14:00 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id EAA01010 ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 04:13:59 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.4/keltia-uucp-2.7) id DAA05011; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:49:50 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199603160249.DAA05011@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:49:50 +0100 (MET) Cc: alk@Think.COM, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603160135.TAA18958@main.gbdata.com> from Gary Clark II at "Mar 15, 96 07:35:20 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1762 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Gary Clark II said: > I'm the one that put perl4 into FreeBSD 2.X. I've got Perl5.002 running here I'm running it fine too but that's not the problem. > and SO far no problems. If someone puts together a bmaked version of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > perl5.002, sends me email and if there is not too much flak, I'll commit it > over 4.036.... The problem I see -- maybe falsely I admit -- is that the building process is *far* more complex than it used to be with p5, especially when extentions are concerned. I still think it will be too difficult to convert the Makefiles and will not be worth it. I completely agree p5 is the way of the future but I am strongly against putting it in the _base_ system because of the porting and maintainance involved. Installed p4 is less than 1.5 MB. p5 is more than 7 MB. That's an argument too. That would bloat us. Last question: who's gonna _maintain_ it ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996