Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 12:12:44 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert), msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <Mutt.19961122121244.davidn@sdev> In-Reply-To: <199611212354.KAA15374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Nov 22, 1996 10:24:55 %2B1030 References: <199611212009.NAA13774@phaeton.artisoft.com> <199611212354.KAA15374@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes: > > This is a different argument entirely... it is a complaint that the > > installation dependency process is insufficiently seamless. > > No it is _not_. Any statically-configured system is vulnerable to > variation in usage pattern; the simple intent here is to cover more of > the possible requirements in the out-of-the-box configuration in a > reasonable fashion. If this is the reason for having it, then Perl4 is no longer viable. In the real world, the only requirement it meets is being able to run the scripts with which FreeBSD is delivered, and that is far too minimal to handle "possible requirements" for using perl scripts from elsewhere, most of which are now require perl5. It needs to be removed or replaced. David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn
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