Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:48:33 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050130124623.15336D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130095013.GA82144@e-Gitt.NET>
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Oliver Brandmueller wrote: > - Don't change the behaviour on -STABLE (4.x, 5.x), but make an OPTION > available, that would turn on the "new" behaviour. > > - For -CURRENT (6.x and beyond), if the change comes, make an OPTION > available, to turn on the "old" behaviour. I think I'd be against this also -- those who followed by google fight link will have seen there were about 1.6 million references to "#!/usr/bin/perl" in Google, vs only about 67,000 references to "#!/usr/bin/env perl". One of the important goals in the 6.x work is to avoid creating unnecessary barriers to upgrades, in order to make transition from 5-STABLE to 6-STABLE much more seamless than the transition from 4-STABLE to 5-STABLE has been. Breaking everyone's perl scripts can hardly be described as "making upgrades seamless". :-) Robert N M Watson
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