From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 1 9:38:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD4937B41B for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:38:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g21Hbtkk154152; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:38:00 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> References: <200203010120.g211KOT81981@freefall.freebsd.org> <1014967603.88498.0.camel@lobster.freebsd-services.com> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:51 -0500 To: Paul Richards From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/tools vnode_if.awk Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 7:26 AM +0000 3/1/02, Paul Richards wrote: >On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:20, David E. O'Brien wrote: > > 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. There have been several threads on why it is a problem for perl to be used as part of the system-building process (such as building kernels). It is particularly painful when bringing up freebsd on some new hardware platform. Removing perl from the system-build process is not the same as removing it from freebsd. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message