From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 13 23:57:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA06769 for current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA06764 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:57:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id XAA01844 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:57:31 -0800 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id IAA21821 ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:56:03 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id IAA22142 ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:56:02 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.4/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA09219; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:43:00 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199603140743.IAA09219@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:43:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199603132140.XAA00297@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Mar 13, 96 11:40:02 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1762 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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