From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 0:46: 5 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 7580E37B41A for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 00:45:58 -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 g417jU28011337; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:45:30 +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 g417jUIV011336; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:45:30 +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 g417ggoI037630; Wed, 1 May 2002 08:42:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200205010742.g417ggoI037630@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Christopher Vance Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? References: <20020501103208.C27128@aurema.com> In-Reply-To: <20020501103208.C27128@aurema.com> ; from Christopher Vance "Wed, 01 May 2002 10:32:08 +1000." Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:42:41 +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 > NetBSD (-current, at least) does not have perl in the base. OpenBSD > has 5.6.. *NOD* > Perhaps FreeBSD could benefit from following NetBSD, and use awk or > whatever to replace the perl stuff for kernel build and wherever else. We've already sorted that out for the kernel build. I'm going to see how well miniperl works for the userland perl scripts. > People who actually want perl could then install a miniperl package > and as many modules as they need or like, up to and including the very > latest full-bloat^H^Hwn version, if desired. I reckon we'll keep miniperl for a while. 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