From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 17 17:56:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA21192 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:56:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA21076 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:55:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA11085; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:59:41 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809180059.KAA11085@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5/hints freebsd.sh In-Reply-To: <199809180041.RAA14180@austin.polstra.com> from John Polstra at "Sep 17, 98 05:41:22 pm" To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:59:41 +1000 (EST) Cc: mark@grondar.za, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Polstra wrote: > In article <199809170603.IAA03554@gratis.grondar.za>, > Mark Murray wrote: > > > This is where I start passing the hat around for a contract on the > > Perl5 developers' heads. Grrr. > > > > They have built a twisty little maze of interdependant scripts that > > is _nasty_ to unravel. These scripts are riddled with path searchers > > and other crap that overrides the build environment. > > After this, perhaps you'll be in the right state of mind to really > enjoy working on GNU binutils ... ;-) >From what I can see, perl5 wins the award. At least binutils doesn't try to be both an operating system and God as well. I had a bad dream about perl5 the other day - I had to submit a perl5 application to a quality audit and justify the test results for a mission critical application. Luckily I woke up. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message