Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 14:02:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> Cc: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20020513140248.A30852@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200205132045.g4DKj9tI091238@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:45:09PM -0600 References: <20020513203822.GA28579@inet34.rd.bbc.co.uk> <200205132045.g4DKj9tI091238@orthanc.ab.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:45:09PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk> writes: > > Jonathan> An auto-configuration script which merely checks for the > Jonathan> existance of a file rather than actually testing it's the > Jonathan> file it needs is a bit silly and probably deserves the > Jonathan> breakage. > > And just what else besides Perl would you expect to find in > /usr/bin/perl you silly pedant?!? ;-) A broken symlink? Perl 4? Perl 6? A perfectly reasionable wrapper script? If these programs detect perl and don't work because the wrapper is there, then a) they are broken and b) it will only take a couple minutes to fix by adding a perl package so why worry. /usr/bin/perl should work if perl is installed to avoid a massive POLA violation. Since ports must not touch /usr/bin and we must not assume that PREFIX=/usr/local, a symlink is out of the question. A wrapper isn't really going to cost us anything performance wise and allows the possability of providing something more useful then "File not found" as an error message. As such, it's a very good solution. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE84Cn3XY6L6fI4GtQRAlGsAJ4qIKJg4m93r/aTLij85eMkofhZ7ACfa8tE FmYnHborof0dGA6N8V38zpc= =fnMd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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