Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 16:29:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200205072329.g47NTFYC001336@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200205072241.g47Mf0jV002339@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200205072309.g47N9JA2001180@apollo.backplane.com> <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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:Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
:> The base utility issue is mainly:
:>
:> makewhatis, catman, sockstat, whereis, which, adduser, rmuser, kbdmap, pkg_update
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:catman is a joke, it should be an option to man(1).
:sockstat is being rewritten in C
:which is a C program and has been for ~2 years
:adduser is pretty straightforward and can be rewritten in sh or C
:rmuser is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh
:kbdmap is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in C
:pkg_update is pretty straightforward and should be rewritten in sh
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:DES
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:Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
Well, ok... but the real issue here is not how easy it would be to
rewrite these utilities, but who will actually rewrite them and
when it will get done. If there are people lined up to do the
work then great! We can move ahead with idea #3. But if it isn't
likely to be done in the time frame Mark is thinking about it
might be best not to depend on the work getting done and going
with something like the miniperl idea as a temporary stopgap. The
nice thing about the miniperl idea is that it works great as a
temporary stopgap.. since only system utilities would use the
binary, when the last system utility is rewritten the miniperl
could simply be removed from the system entirely without affecting
anything or anyone.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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