From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Feb 28 23:26:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [62.232.68.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927CA37B402; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 23:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lobster.originative.co.uk (lobster [62.232.68.81]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733B91D169; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 07:26:43 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/tools vnode_if.awk From: Paul Richards To: "David E. O'Brien" Cc: arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 01 Mar 2002 07:26:42 +0000 Message-Id: <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Re-directed to arch. On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:20, David E. O'Brien wrote: > obrien 2002/02/28 17:20:24 PST > > Modified files: > sys/tools vnode_if.awk > Log: > Return vnode_if back to its AWK roots. > It became a Perl script in rev 1.20. This removes one more dependence > on perl for the kernel build. Is there an "official" policy about what's happening with Perl in our tree? Personally. I think it would be a mistake for FreeBSD to move away from using Perl. It's now standard in a lot of operating systems and far from moving away we should probably be making more use of it. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message