Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 03:49:50 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: gclarkii@main.gbdata.com (Gary Clark II) Cc: alk@Think.COM, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To pick a (perl) fight! Message-ID: <199603160249.DAA05011@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199603160135.TAA18958@main.gbdata.com> from Gary Clark II at "Mar 15, 96 07:35:20 pm"
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It seems that Gary Clark II said:
> I'm the one that put perl4 into FreeBSD 2.X. I've got Perl5.002 running here
I'm running it fine too but that's not the problem.
> and SO far no problems. If someone puts together a bmaked version of
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> perl5.002, sends me email and if there is not too much flak, I'll commit it
> over 4.036....
The problem I see -- maybe falsely I admit -- is that the building process
is *far* more complex than it used to be with p5, especially when
extentions are concerned. I still think it will be too difficult to convert
the Makefiles and will not be worth it.
I completely agree p5 is the way of the future but I am strongly against
putting it in the _base_ system because of the porting and maintainance
involved.
Installed p4 is less than 1.5 MB. p5 is more than 7 MB. That's an argument
too. That would bloat us.
Last question: who's gonna _maintain_ it ?
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Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996
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