Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:49:32 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Marc Recht <marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system? Message-ID: <20021003234932.GA58769@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3D9CAF57.4F8BE24D@mindspring.com> References: <3632.1033651189@critter.freebsd.dk> <007f01c26ae2$09b11ab0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20021003191753.GA56857@dragon.nuxi.com> <3D9CAF57.4F8BE24D@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > The created mess that caused us to take Perl out of the base system is > > that it cannot be cross built. This library is C/C++ code; so we can > > easily cross compile it. > > I thought cross-building was a side issue to the fact that the > system Perl was seen by Perl advocates as being "incomplete", for I guess it was a 50%-50% split on why perl-in-the-base-system needed to go. I was 100% in the cross-building camp, as was Peter Wemm when I helped convence him to back perl's removal. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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