From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 07:34:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24950 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:34:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA24907 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02795 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:34:02 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id QAA16633 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:33:24 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.0/keltia-uucp-2.9) id QAA26900; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:30:13 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199610241430.QAA26900@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:30:12 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp. References: <13379.846159409@time.cdrom.com> <199610241232.MAA26317@veda.is> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#2584 In-Reply-To: <199610241232.MAA26317@veda.is>; from Adam David on Oct 24, 1996 12:32:41 +0000 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. Beware that a shared libperl.so is not yet compatible with some extensions, the first being the compiler. I've tested it and it doesn't work with a shared libperl.so. > Isn't there a perl4 compatibility module or something, that would ease the > transition? No, what you have is a document describing Perl4 pitfalls (perltrap). > > 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? 802 [16:20] roberto@keltia:/build/perl5.003_05> du -s . 11739 . Add a few MB for objects and binaries. Installed it is about 8 MB (I have many installed add-on packages like Tk so it is difficult to say exactly). Note that 5.004 (currently 5.003_07) is near. There are a few important bug fixes (especially one regarding integer arithmetic) and fixed documentation in it. 5.003 is nothing more than 5.002+setuid fix and was done in urgency. In fact, there were more features in 5.002_02 than in 5.003... Anyway, it is a contrib/ candidate rather than a gnu/usr.bin/ one. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #25: Tue Oct 15 21:13:57 MET DST 1996