Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:56:42 -0400 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/perl5 Makefile ports/lang/perl5/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <19981012175642.F1157@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199810120914.LAA00706@gratis.grondar.za>; from Mark Murray on Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:14:21AM %2B0200 References: <199810120651.XAA26861@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981012042954.C1296@scsn.net> <199810120914.LAA00706@gratis.grondar.za>
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On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:14:21AM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > Perl 5 is in the system. Mark this port broken for 3.0 for that reason.
> >
> > There may be good reasons to mark this broken, but it seems to me that this
> > is not one of them. When TCL was in the system, we still had a choice...
>
> TCL is no shining example.
God knows, I'm not holding the system TCL up as *any* kind of
example... I just wanted to emphasize the importance of having a
choice.
> I have no intention of letting this happen with perl. If you wish
> to repair the perl5 port, patch out the relevant lines and run it
> on your system, this is 100% fine by me; if you want to have half
> our userbase using ports perl5 "just because they can", I suggest
> you consider the support nightmare before doing it.
>
> There is no functional difference (or there should not be any)
> between ports perl5 and system perl5; ergo, there is no need for
> both.
Thank you. I notice that you are the maintainer of the port as well,
so I guess there's not much chance of the port being better maintained
than the system perl :-)
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