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From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To: George Cox <gjvc@extremis.net>
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Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 06:55:16PM +0000, George Cox wrote:
> On 08/05 00:55, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > > improve exposure.  Do Perl applications typically hard code paths, or just
> > > rely on Perl to "know where to look"? 
> > 
> > We have several choices.. From installing a symlink pointing to wherever
> > the default perl package is, through to a simple redirector that searches
> > $PATH and/or looks in a few well-known locations.  Heck, python often uses
> > "#! /usr/bin/env python".  This works for perl scripts too.
> 
> We have mailwrapper(1).  How about perlwrapper(1)?! h0h0h0

mailwrapper is because FreeBSD comes with an MTA though.

No h0h0h0 magic! :)

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David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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