From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 18 14:42:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA07590 for current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:42:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA07573 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 14:42:16 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA10548 ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:42:07 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA12206 ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:42:06 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id XAA01030; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:08:00 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199603182208.XAA01030@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Ok, perl5 is out, but is the menu stuff ok? To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:08:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603161750.TAA07222@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Mar 16, 96 07:50:49 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1787 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: > Perl 4 is rather aged by all accounts. If all anyone is going to > do when they get FreeBSD is barf and install perl5, is that not an > indication that we should catch up? If we want to catch u, then we should ditch Perl 4 from the tree and only use the Perl 5 port. There are obvious advantages in having at least a part of Perl in the tree (adduser comes to mind) but: 1. a full fledged Perl 5 in the tree will be too big IMO, 2. a cut-down Perl 5 will be a nightmare to maintain and will be missing some useful things like extentions. If I had to choose between the two, I'd take the former. A full one or nothing. I'd rather avoid both if possible. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #7: Mon Mar 18 21:28:18 MET 1996