From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 11:46:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B37616A4CE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:46:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A81F43D39; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:46:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67D675E7C; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:46:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56399-08; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:46:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-114-38.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.114.38]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52445DFE; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:46:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41FCC905.60307@mac.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:46:13 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20050129202425.GA56998@heechee.tobez.org> <20050129220905.46ab86ae.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <41FBFDD9.7070605@mac.com> <20050130162753.D9021@a2.scoop.co.nz> <41FC67D8.2020609@mac.com> <20050130050110.GC1209@k7.mavetju> <41FCB779.7030902@mac.com> <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20050130105424.GA31598@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: perl@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:46:22 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 05:31:21AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: >>I do want scripts to use a portable mechanism to invoke Perl regardless of >>where the binary happens to be found, but if people are determined to do >>otherwise, well, that's up to them. One solution for those people might be >>to install the Perl port with a $PREFIX of /usr rather than /usr/local. > > And I want a pony :-) I don't expect to get what I want, either. :-) > In other words, it's an impossible dream to hope that all scripts will > conform to this or any of the other possible choices (remember the > perl motto). Even making everything perl in the ports collection use > a uniform style is probably an infeasible task (recall 840 ports use > /usr/bin/perl, and that's not counting the others that use another > hardcoded variant of /usr/local/bin/perl). Good word, that. It is infeasible to get hundreds of people to all follow a convention-- any convention, no matter how simple and reasonable-- simply by wishing for it. Since a perfect solution does not exist, it is fortunate that we don't actually need one: just something that is good enough for now, for the present tasks. The Perl software I actually use either works fine regardless of whether perl is in /usr/bin, /sw/bin, /opt/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/pkg/bin, or who knows where else, or else I fix it to suit my requirements when I notice a problem. -- -Chuck