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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:51:17 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Zhihao Yuan <lichray@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: [GSoC]I want to remove everything perl/tcl/gtags in the new nvi
Message-ID:  <20110715125117.20556cwl94hp8lgl@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110714140645.GA60562@pix.net>
References:  <CAGsORuBve81wbYM5EXkF01TaRbgoJKO%2B13Rs-MauzQA87X7_7w@mail.gmail.com> <20110714140645.GA60562@pix.net>

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Quoting Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net> (from Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:06:45 -0400):

> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>> Second, the perl/tcl interpreter support; you can apply a perl/tcl
>> command to the file whiling you are editing. I beg no one here used
>> this feature before.
>
> Bzzt. I've used the perl interpreter before on a project.

[description of use-case]

>> Any comments?
>
> I don't really care that the perl/tcl integration stays or goes, but
> it's certainly not "never been used".

Let's rephrase it: as nvi needs to link to perl, and we do not have a  
perl in the base since a loooong time, surely nobody was using the  
stock basesystem-nvi with the perl (and tcl) interpreter. As we also  
will not import perl/tcl into the basesystem again (at least not in  
the foreseable future), the code is useless for our basesystem.  
Whoever wants a vi with with such an interpreter, needs to compile one  
himself anyway and there are enough alternatives in the ports.

Bye,
Alexander.

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