From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 15:13:04 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337B116A4CE for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from coldstone.hollensbe.org (hollensbe.org [69.9.134.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2F343D41 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:13:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erik@hollensbe.org) Received: from [10.0.0.16] (68-118-48-185.or.charter.com [68.118.48.185]) (authenticated bits=0)j0VFCmna070496 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:13:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from erik@hollensbe.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <20050131120053.1A21B16A4FB@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050131120053.1A21B16A4FB@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <40592c75696cc939aa4af4b59d81fde5@hollensbe.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Erik Hollensbe Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:12:44 -0800 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) Subject: Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 97, Issue 1 (re: perl changes) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:13:04 -0000 I apologize for the lack of quotes, but since this has dominated the list, I imagine my message will have appropriate context without. I started using perl in v5, and only with rare exception have any of the scripts I've used or written required /usr/local/bin/perl. /usr/bin/perl seems to be the current "standard", regardless of any rules to the contrary. Same goes for a lack of env usage. While it's nice to be idealistic, lets be realistic - FreeBSD's change isn't going to carpet the world overnight, and a simple symlink (which could be defaulted on or off, I would think on would be more reasonable) will solve this problem in a rather cooperative fashion. Those who want purity can turn it off, and the rest of us who really would rather not have purist choice dominate our updates can use the "standard". (That wasn't said to insult, to counter any assumptions.) -Erik