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Date:      01 Mar 2002 07:26:42 +0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/tools vnode_if.awk
Message-ID:  <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org>

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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.


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