From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 30 5:56:55 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CED9037B41C; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 05:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 172XB7-000A4c-00; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:56:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:56:21 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Christopher Masto Cc: Mark Murray , Jun Kuriyama , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5 MAINTAIN README.posix-bc Todo-5.005 XSlock.h bytecode.h byterun.c byterun.h ebcdic.c interp.sym myconfig objpp.h perl_exp.SH thread.sym src/contrib/perl5/eg/cgi dna.small.gif.uu wilogo.gif.uu src/contrib/perl5/ext/B byteperl.c ... Message-ID: <20020430125621.GB38322@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Christopher Masto , Mark Murray , Jun Kuriyama , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <7m8z75imh4.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> <200204300912.g3U9CXoI019113@grimreaper.grondar.org> <20020430124529.GB40079@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020430124529.GB40079@netmonger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:12:33AM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > > > At Sat, 16 Mar 2002 14:35:55 -0800 (PST), > > > Mark Murray wrote: > > > > contrib/perl5/lib CGI.pm > > > > contrib/perl5/lib/CGI Apache.pm Carp.pm Cookie.pm Fast.pm > > > > Pretty.pm Push.pm Switch.pm > > > > contrib/perl5/lib/Sys Hostname.pm Syslog.pm > > > > > > Why these files are removed? > > > > Because CGI has nothing to do with 'base' FreeBSD (any more than > > Apache does), and the other files are not in Perl-5.6.1. > > The modules that _are_ included with Perl, however, were chosen for a > reason. The argument that X "has nothing to do with FreeBSD" is an > awfully slippery slope. Perl is supposed to be useful for certain > things "out of the box", much as FreeBSD is (currently) a complete > operating system. > > I beg you to reconsider distributing a less-than-complete Perl. I agree. They're part of the standard library and are utterly expected to be there. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message