Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:32:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: stesin@gu.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. Message-ID: <199610241232.MAA26317@veda.is> In-Reply-To: <13379.846159409@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 24, 96 05:16:49 am"
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> > 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. Now that is pretty cool. > > 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. Isn't there a perl4 compatibility module or something, that would ease the transition? > 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? In the worst case... how about /usr/bin/operl for the exceptions, and nuke it later? Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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