Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 01:25:02 +0100 From: Jean-Marc Zucconi <jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Cc: mark@grondar.za, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ok, perl5 is out, but is the menu stuff ok? Message-ID: <9603190025.AA00289@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <199603182208.XAA01030@keltia.freenix.fr> (message from Ollivier Robert on Mon, 18 Mar 1996 23:08:00 %2B0100 (MET))
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>>>>> Ollivier Robert writes:
> 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,
I don't think this is a good argument:
- disks are cheap
- you already have perl in /usr/bin AND in /usr/local/bin! So
removing perl4 and keeping perl5 in /usr/bin will give you more room
on your disks :-)
> 2. a cut-down Perl 5 will be a nightmare to maintain and will be missing
> some useful things like extentions.
I agree. The problem I see with extensions is that non standard
extensions (eg Tk) will not install in /usr/local. However it may be
possible to make the site_perl directory a link /usr/local/something.
> 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.
Jean-Marc
> --
> 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
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