From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 21 16:47:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01140 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:47:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01130 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 16:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id LAA15782; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:16:46 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611220046.LAA15782@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! In-Reply-To: <199611220034.RAA13292@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 21, 96 05:34:44 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:16:45 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, gclarkii@main.gbdata.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > But the policy is that nothing belongs in the 'src' tree unless > something else relies on it. You can get TCL via the ports (or could This devolves to "nothing belongs in the source tree". If you accept any other argument, then we are talking about what level of service/redundancy (depending on perspective) is appropriate. > main tree. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but unless that happens soon > I'm gonna stay in the 'complain and moan' camp. (I *HATE* seeing stupid > TCL man-pages that come up instead of the C routines). And finally, your real gripe. How about reordering your manpage search order so that 3 comes before n? I hate getting printf(1) before printf(3) too; do you hear me griping about that? > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[