Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:02:16 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Cc: current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl4 Message-ID: <199603200802.CAA10056@main.gbdata.com> In-Reply-To: <199603192239.QAA18506@compound> from "Tony Kimball" at Mar 19, 96 04:39:06 pm
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Hello, WARNING: slight flamage ahead.... Tony Kimball wrote: > > > > I don't think this is a good argument: > - - you already have perl in /usr/bin AND in /usr/local/bin! > Perl 4 is ONLY in /usr/bin. You might have added perl5 to the system or made a copy. > So remove them both from the base distribution. p4 can be made a > package at zero-maintenance cost. How much breaks, and how hard is > it to fix? Perl IS the sys admin language of choice. Many systems now ship perl with the distribution like we do. Thats why I brought it in. > > ./bin/makewhatis: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/catman: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/killall: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/sgmlfmt: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./bin/which: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/adduser: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/kbdmap: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/vidfont: a /usr/bin/perl script text > ./sbin/spkrtest: a /usr/bin/perl script text > > Not much. Eliminate it, and that reduces the installed base OS size > by 4MB, meaning more installations, more market share, better > differentiation from bloated commercial systems. Huh? If 4 megs made that BIG of a difference, we would have taken over a LONG time ago. > > If I write C versions of these scripts, will that suffice > to break perl off into a package? Not really, not unless you will also re-write ALL future scripts also. I'm in the process of a total rewrite for adduser to expand it into a sysadmin system (add user, delete user, groups, change user attributes, etc). This will be a curses based system. > > //alk > Gary P.S. Sorry for the slight flamage, but I still belive we need perl. -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii
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