Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:43:00 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603140743.IAA09219@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199603132140.XAA00297@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Mar 13, 96 11:40:02 pm"
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It seems that Mark Murray said: > What are the reasons we do not now have Perl5 in the main tree? I have > a query from one of our more perl-literate users who made the suggestion > that Perl4 should be in ports/. 1. Perl5 is far too big for us to maintain it in the main source tree, the installed files take this: 6368 perl5 627 perl 2. the building process is far more complex than Perl4 used to be because of all the extensions available in Perl5. There are many things I doubt we can change into Bmakefiles. 3. Perl5 sources, as of 5.002 are more then 6.6 MB worth where Perl4 is around 2 MB. Having Perl4 in the tree in a good thing because it is small and not a moving target anymore. Perl5 would bloat us. Don't take this wrong, I'm a Perl fan and I'm use Perl5 as much as I can but I really think we should not take it under our wing. The port is easy enough to compile/install and the package is there for people who don't want to compile it. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996
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