From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 16 09:41:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA20866 for current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 09:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20860 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 09:41:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA09384 ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:41:34 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA03147 ; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 18:41:33 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.4/keltia-uucp-2.7) id MAA05649; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:59:44 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199603161159.MAA05649@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Ok, perl5 is out, but is the menu stuff ok? To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 12:59:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603161102.NAA12462@grumble.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Mar 16, 96 01:02:58 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1762 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Mark Murray said: > Here is something reasonable! We all know by now that Perl5 is huge, > but we do not need it all, right? The shared goodies, lots of the > libraries, that sort of stuff I would go with being kinda optional? Jörg's suggestion is sound but I still think it will be a nightmare to maintain, even more so than it would be with the full program in the tree. Besides, you want the extensions and you want them shared. > (I am busy doing the Perl5.002 port right now, so I'll be able to give > a breakdown in a couple of hours...) What do people have against a regular port ? I know we have a few Perl scripts in the tree so we keep the good ol' p4. What do you want everything in the _base_ dist ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #6: Mon Mar 11 20:18:10 MET 1996