From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 28 23:37:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC2337B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g217bJR03545; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:37:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:37:19 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Paul Richards Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/tools vnode_if.awk Message-ID: <20020228233719.A1473@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org> <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:26:42AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:26:42AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > Personally. I think it would be a mistake for FreeBSD to move away from > using Perl. It's now standard in a lot of operating systems and far from > moving away we should probably be making more use of it. Send me a sparc64 and PowerPC binary and we can talk. Until then Perl is on its way out of being part of the kernel build. It is an impediment to porting to a new platform. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message