From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 8:21:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169B437B40E for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA99204; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:24:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Received: from localhost (scottj@localhost) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3av) with ESMTP id IAA99197; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:24:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Joseph Scott X-Sender: scottj@pebkac.owp.csus.edu To: Mark Murray Cc: Paul Richards , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <200205091340.g49De5jV022646@grimreaper.grondar.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 On Thu, 9 May 2002, Mark Murray wrote: # > Does having this redirector serve any useful purpose? It's an extra # > piece of code to maintain, it's an extra potential security risk, it's # > an extra source of potential confusion to the Perl user if there's a bug # > in it, and I can't see any useful purpose in it existing. # > # > Either /usr/bin/perl is there or it isn't, we don't need a fancy # > redirector to tell us it's not installed. # > # > A symlink is a much more sensible solution to this problem and a # > redirector just seems to be creating a toy for the fun of it rather than # > to solve any real problem. # # I'm completely ambivalent on this point. Symlink or redirector; I # don't mind. Once perl5 is out of the system cleanly, I'll consider # my job done. This may sound like an extremely silly little idea, but is there any reason why we can't just replace /usr/bin/perl with a shell script that prints out something like : Perl is no longer comes with the base install of FreeBSD, please install it from your ports collection, in /usr/ports/lang/perl5. -Joseph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message