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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:57:59 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Cc: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>,
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Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system?
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David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> > Well, playing the devil's advocate -- isn't this the type of discussion the
> > preceeded the introduction of Perl into the base system, the introduction of
> > which created such a mess that we finally took Perl out of the base system
> > in -CURRENT?
> 
> 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
lacking things like CGI libraries, etc..  I remember the CGI stuff
specifically, because there was a complaint of some "standard Perl
code from CPAN" which would not run under FreeBSD's version of Perl.

-- Terry

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