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From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com>
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Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do!
To: sos@FreeBSD.org
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:44:06 -0600 (CST)
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sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
--SNIP--

> 
> If we are going to have all this **** in the base distribution I want
> names on a list of people _REPONSIBLE_ for each and every package, so
> I know _EXACTLY_ who to yell at when it fails or falls to far
> behind. Otherwise core is going to get bashed over and over for not
> doings thing right. I'll take my share of bashing, but _NOT_ because
> somebody decided to make (favorit program de jur) part of the base system.

I am the Perl person unless someone stands forth.  I brought 4.036 in
back in 2.0 and have been waiting for the wrangling to be done with before
I bring in 5.003/4.  I have no problem doing this.  I also need to
"REMOVE" the current info in the tree and update to the latest. No 
big deal, except for the flamage I would catch.

> Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team

Next point, people are jumping on Perl about how we have so few system
utils based on it it should go, where are the utils based on TCL?
(And as for incompatiable versions... Do all the ports work with
our version of TCL?)


Gary
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