From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 05:19:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA17605 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:19:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA17599; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA13381; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:16:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrew Stesin cc: Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers , committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:19:43 +0300." Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 05:16:49 -0700 Message-ID: <13379.846159409@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. Perl 5.003 has a vi module?! :-) > 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. I think we were waiting for Perl5 to shake out, and with good reason. Many parts of the PERL programming world still had yet to shift themselves, which was another good reason to stick with Perl4. Nowdays, I don't know. First off, how much bigger is it going to make our default source tree and second, is the perl world really ready for /usr/bin/perl to be perl5 by default? Jordan