From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 02:21:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA05210 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 02:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua ([194.93.190.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA05200; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 02:20:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua [194.93.190.3]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA33954; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:19:43 +0300 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:19:43 +0300 (EET DST) From: Andrew Stesin X-Sender: stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD hackers , committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. In-Reply-To: <199610232111.XAA27993@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > Our /usr/bin/vi is already a little rusty. I would really like it if > somebody takes the stab and upgrades it. Two direct consequences: 1. Perl 5.003_smth goes from ports to main tree -- packed as a big shared library, + a 8k /usr/bin/perl; and /usr/bin/vi and all other programs using Perl5's embedded features will use that shared lib. 2. Old and rusty perl4 goes to Attic. Why so many people don't like this to happen (for years) -- who knows? As for me, Perl is as great as Tcl is, both are useful. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > -- Best, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE