From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 22 08:19:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA10388 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA10375 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 08:19:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous229.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.229]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA08216; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:04:42 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA05927; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:59:16 +0200 Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 16:59:16 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199606221459.QAA05927@campa.panke.de> To: Peter Mutsaers Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: tcl -- what's going on here. In-Reply-To: <87rarb7axu.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> References: <87rarb7axu.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Mutsaers writes: >I also install tcl almost on all machines I use. But that doesn't mean >that it should be in the main tree instead of in ports. The main tree >should contain only the base OS? Ports is for all the nice optional >extras. >I'd like more to see perl be removed from the main tree (since perl4 >is outdated anyway, and perl5 is in ports). You can't remove perl from the main tree ;-))) Many sytem tools are written in perl. Don't waste your time to rewrite them in C because you don't like perl! Wolfram