From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 09:30:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA07125 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:30:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA07116 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09054 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:30:47 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id SAA24806 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:30:20 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id SAA18057; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:30:37 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:30:36 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! References: <199611210550.QAA11975@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <199611210550.QAA11975@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Nov 21, 1996 16:20:46 +1030 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Michael Smith: > There is no way that Perl 4 would be retained. Perl's size is not a real > issue; people just need stop thinking that 5M is "big" 8) It is not just 5 MB of source. It is just that we have to carefully separate what's in the base Perl tree and what will be added after by the administrator. Fortunately, Perl has everything we need for that but it is tricky to do it right. The @INC path is by default: Base Perl tree 1. /usr/local/lib/perl5/i386-freebsd/5.00308 2. /usr/local/lib/perl5 We'll have to find the proper place for them in /usr/lib{exec,data}/perl and /usr/share/perl because it has a mixture of .so (binary) and .pm/.al (text). Or we could keep all these in /usr/lib/perl (much easier even if it probably violates hier(7) a bit). Add-on packages 3. /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-freebsd 4. /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl 5. . -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996