From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 02:45:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA12225 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:45:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com ([207.90.222.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA12217 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 02:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id EAA03460; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 04:44:11 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199611221044.EAA03460@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 04:44:10 -0600 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611220128.SAA13712@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 21, 96 06:28:42 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (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 wrote: > > That's all well and good, but it presents a chicken-and-egg situation > > for anyone trying to work outside the decades-old BSD model. You may > > not consider this a problem; I do. Opinions differ. This did not stop me from putting my adduser script in the 1.X contrib tree. I also had a kernel config tool there also. > > Yes, but anyone capable of developing a 'cool tool' with TCL that we > can't live w/out is capable of installing a port, and *then* showing me > how wonderful it is to justify bringing in TCL as part of the base > system. We have one, pkh's bmake script. From what I've seen, the others are TCL/TK scripts. > > Put the cart *before* the horse. > > Nate > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii