From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 22 05:28:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA18649 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 05:28:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA18644 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 05:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id NAA21458 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:28:00 GMT Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:27:38 +0000 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (tees.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.60]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA08557; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:27:29 GMT Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.2/8.8.0) id NAA03799; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:26:18 GMT To: Nate Williams Cc: Michael Smith , gclarkii@main.gbdata.COM (Gary Clark II), hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! References: <199611211744.LAA28802@main.gbdata.com> <199611212334.KAA15204@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199611220034.RAA13292@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Paul Richards Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:26:16 +0000 In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 17:34:44 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <57n2wafeh2.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams 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