From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 11:10:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.139.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC99637B41C for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3UIAW28085999; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:10:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id g3UIAWGV085998; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:10:32 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3UI7xoI031309; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:07:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200204301807.g3UI7xoI031309@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Jarkko Hietaniemi Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? References: <20020430193304.A30405@alpha.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <20020430193304.A30405@alpha.hut.fi> ; from Jarkko Hietaniemi "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:33:04 +0300." Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:07:59 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (I promise that this is my last message about this matter to this large a > recipient list. Who is the maintainer of the Perl package in FreeBSD? > Anton Berezin, I think? tobez@freebsd.org CCed.) Me - markm@freebsd.org > Though I disagree with the tone of Dan Kogai, I must agree on the > technical grounds that leaving away standard modules and still calling > it "Perl" is not quite right. > > I think both from the viewpoints of the Perl distribution *and* an OS > distribution *IF* modules have to be left out for space-saving reasons > the fair thing to do would be to make it clear to the users of the OS > distribution that what they are getting is not the full Perl. This > will cut down the number of misunderstandings on both sides. Fair enough. > Firstly, both the outputs of perl -v and perl -V should be amended. > For example: > > $ perl -v > > This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-freebsd ... etc. I could do this. > Secondly, as the above message indicates, there should be a full Perl > installation available, using whatever packaging method is used by the > OS distribution. FreeBSD has the ports collection that has a full install of Perl 5.6.1. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message