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Date:      Wed, 1 May 2002 10:53:19 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Dan Kogai <dankogai@dan.co.jp>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Vadim Konovalov <vkonovalov@peterstar.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org
Subject:   Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
Message-ID:  <20020501105319.D70018@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <F59D1F9E-5D1E-11D6-BB19-00039301D480@dan.co.jp>; from dankogai@dan.co.jp on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:17:40AM %2B0900
References:  <200205011556.g41FucoI039924@grimreaper.grondar.org> <F59D1F9E-5D1E-11D6-BB19-00039301D480@dan.co.jp>

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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:17:40AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> Speaking of which, the whole build process does not use objective-C 
> (correct me if I am wrong).  

The cost of Objective-C, given we have to have C, is 1 minute in build
time, and 390K of diskspace (installed).  This is several orders of
manitude below Perl 5.6.x.


> So if you insist on stripping Perl it may 
> as well be unfair to leave GCC unstripped (I pretty much doubt GPL 
> allows you to do so, however).

Why in the world do you think the GPL prevents that?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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