Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:26:16 +0000 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, gclarkii@main.gbdata.COM (Gary Clark II), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <57n2wafeh2.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:34:44 -0700 (MST) References: <199611211744.LAA28802@main.gbdata.com> <199611212334.KAA15204@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199611220034.RAA13292@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> writes: > But the policy is that nothing belongs in the 'src' tree unless > something else relies on it. You can get TCL via the ports (or could > have until we brought it into the tree) and it should have stayed there > since nothing still uses it and it's been over 5 months. I complained > when it was brought in and was told 'Real Soon Now', but nothing has > happened. Who says? There are lots of things in the src tree that are not normally used, with nothing depending on them. > It's simply bloat that is useless to *most* users, and has no use in the > main tree. I'm willing to be proven wrong, but unless that happens soon > I'm gonna stay in the 'complain and moan' camp. (I *HATE* seeing stupid > TCL man-pages that come up instead of the C routines). (The man pages annoy me too, couldn't we get them into a different section). "Most" users is I guess the key issue and it seems from this discussion that "most" users user perl. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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