From owner-cvs-all Thu Aug 22 13: 3:54 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C61537B408; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F1243E7B; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 13:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7MAe6qa085747; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:40:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with UUCP id g7MAe6Xb085746; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:40:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7MAduQg056353; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:39:56 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200208221039.g7MAduQg056353@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/perl pathnames.h perl.c References: <20020822112151.A17650@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20020822112151.A17650@uriah.heep.sax.de> ; from Joerg Wunsch "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:21:51 +0200." Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:39:56 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Anyway, upon seeing the current /usr/bin/perl, i thought it to > be a Good Idea. Since virtually all Unix-like operating systems > these days (with FreeBSD being the exception now) ship Perl as > /usr/bin/perl, it makes the script well portable to have a > redirector there. We've got so many other redirectors (MTA, > binutils -> ELF/COFF etc.), why not keep /usr/bin/perl as well? My (not very strong) objection to this is that it is too specific. It has already been shown that mailwrapper can do the job of this, and I'm sure that can do some of mailwrapper's job, so _if_ we need such a tool, MHO is that it should be general enough to do perl, mailwrapper and more besides. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message