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From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox)
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/perl5 Makefile ports/lang/perl5/pkg PLIST
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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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