From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 12 22:17:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006AE37B401; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:17:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8D043E6E; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:17:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAD6H2b1065156; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3DD1EE5E.E268055A@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:17:02 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.org Cc: Mark Murray , Kris Kennaway , des@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper References: <20021107014750.GA18398@rot13.obsecurity.org> <200211080858.gA88wiCE029745@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20021112101236.GB8744@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:58:44AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote: > > IMVHO, the perl wrapper should be removed altogether, and the > > perl port's "use.port" symlink-creating feature should be used > > instead. > > Do we have consensus on this? The perl wrapper really isn't working out > for all the cases I hoped it would when I committed it. In case another vote is needed, I've always been opposed to the wrapper. tobez and I put some work into getting the use.perl script in the port to DTRT shortly after the demise of base perl, and I'm still willing to help fine tune it if needed. FWIW, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message