From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 29 02:00:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8431065673 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:00:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFB078FC23 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:00:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFFC76D43F; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D6AE5844C2; Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:43:32 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Chuck Robey References: <18875.60334.947446.966085@gromit.timing.com> <20090315.080814.669286040.imp@bsdimp.com> <18877.57878.136116.691250@gromit.timing.com> <20090318.183646.-593221015.imp@bsdimp.com> <18881.38984.133668.539997@gromit.timing.com> <49C19F2A.10406@elischer.org> <18881.42546.640583.971867@gromit.timing.com> <49CEC2C0.3020902@telenix.org> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:43:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <49CEC2C0.3020902@telenix.org> (Chuck Robey's message of "Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:37:20 -0400") Message-ID: <86wsa96r3v.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: arch@freebsd.org, John Hein , Julian Elischer Subject: Re: Final sanity pass: xdev X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:00:44 -0000 Chuck Robey writes: > In fact, needing that python26 would really stop this from ever > getting into the base, wouldn't it? Not that I'd mind a good excuse > to get python into our base, but I don't think anyone else would agree > with me. Trust me, you *don't* want python (or any other widely used script language) in base. There's a good reason why we removed Tcl and Perl. Imagine a having Python 2.5 is in base, and needing to run a mission- critical application that requires 2.6. You would have no choice but to install 2.6 from ports, and you would run into all sorts of problems with the two versions interfering with each other, scripts mysteriously failing because they were invoked with the wrong $PATH and therefore the wrong interpreter, code running in the 2.5 interpreter trying to load 2.6 modules, etc. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no