From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 2:25:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from n2.peterstar.net (news.peterstar.ru [217.195.65.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7EC737B400 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 02:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vad (dialup92-109.ip.PeterStar.net [217.195.92.109]) by n2.peterstar.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with SMTP id g419Ox616178; Wed, 1 May 2002 13:25:00 +0400 (MSD) Message-ID: <016d01c1f0f2$169d3d40$d25cc3d9@vad> Reply-To: "Vadim Konovalov" From: "Vadim Konovalov" To: "Dan Kogai" , "Mark Murray" Cc: , References: <36DA0290-5C74-11D6-84FE-00039301D480@dan.co.jp> <200204302017.g3UKHIoI032520@grimreaper.grondar.org> Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 13:25:02 +0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 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'm not sure that is acceptable. I believe that perl 5.8.0 will be > +- 45 MB. I cannot afford to import all of that - I'd get lynched. that is price, for example, for Unicode. Okay, when many platforms will be doing stripping their tools, everyone should remember where his perl programs are able to run and where they are not and require additional dowloading. (I remember how I was disappointed that Redhat linux distribution did not contained Tk in its distribution, even for optional installation. It was a pain to rebuild) For me, nowadays 45MB is nothing compared to medium HDD capacity, and even my POCKET PC will easily accomodate it... Vadim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message