From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 8:34:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw-fi.esaote.com (gw-fi.esaote.com [217.58.169.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EBA37B40A for ; Thu, 9 May 2002 08:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rock.fi.esaote.it (rock.fi.esaote.it [192.168.4.40]) by gw-fi.esaote.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g49FYFHR034863; Thu, 9 May 2002 17:34:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from riccardo@torrini.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.4 on HPUX X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 17:34:15 +0200 (METDST) From: Riccardo Torrini To: Joseph Scott Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, Paul Richards , Mark Murray 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 09-May-2002 (15:24:57/GMT) Joseph Scott wrote: > 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. Or even better that check for existence of port, when true exec .../local/bin/perl, when false print this message (like wish ?) Riccardo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message