Date: 19 Jun 1996 23:15:09 +0200 From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. Message-ID: <87rarb7axu.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com's message of Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:21:11 -0500 References: <buif8yjw.fsf@totally-fudged-out-message-id>
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>> On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 10:21:11 -0500, rjk@sparcmill.grauel.com
>> (Richard J Kuhns) said:
RJK> tcl is on every system I administer; I use it extensively.
RJK> Linked with the appropriate libraries, it can greatly speed
RJK> the development of tools using those libraries. IMHO,
RJK> bringing tcl into the main tree would encourage the growth
RJK> and development of FreeBSD.
I also install tcl almost on all machines I use. But that doesn't mean
that it should be in the main tree instead of in ports. The main tree
should contain only the base OS? Ports is for all the nice optional
extras.
This way the main tree could grow completely out of bounds. Because
the same can be said about Java (and also about python, scheme
etc.). There are many tcl/perl like scripting languages. Java will
probably become the most important. Should Java also be put in the
main tree?
I'd like more to see perl be removed from the main tree (since perl4
is outdated anyway, and perl5 is in ports).
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