From owner-freebsd-perl@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 12 07:16:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9369CA6A for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:16:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@eborcom.com) Received: from eborcom.com (agde.scrubhole.org [IPv6:2a02:1658:1::123:1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60AA1165A for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tom by eborcom.com with local (Exim 4.80 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1UmfI5-000BtP-Pf for freebsd-perl@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:16:21 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:16:21 +0000 From: Tom Hukins To: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: announcement of future perl changes. Message-ID: <20130612071621.GF35400@eborcom.com> References: <20130611151127.GD35400@eborcom.com> <20130611160222.GE35400@eborcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: Tom Hukins X-BeenThere: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: maintainer of a number of perl-related ports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 07:16:23 -0000 On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:49:55PM +0400, Andrej Zverev wrote: > I did not hack perl source code itself, all what i did is avaliable > for all perl users (via configuration). I hadn't realised that. > Well, you can look at debian or fedora and maybe more distros which > already done such trick. I rarely use vendor-built perl binaries on other operating systems as they typically compile with thread, which slows perl down, but I have taken a look and I see what you mean. > I think that your fears are meaningless. This change can only lead > to simplify all freebsd users life, but not inverse. I agree. I hope you don't mind my confused objection. Thank you for correcting my mistakes. Tom