Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:29:52 +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, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who needs Perl? We do! Message-ID: <57lobufeb3.fsf@tees.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Nate Williams's message of Thu, 21 Nov 1996 18:07:08 -0700 (MST) References: <199611220051.RAA13441@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199611220101.LAA15889@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199611220107.SAA13545@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> writes: > Let's see those tools, and then I'll shutup. Again, there are lots of > *useful* things that we could bring in, but they aren't used and/or > essential. Should we bring in Python as well, and what about the new > Limbo compiler from the folks at Lucent (nee Bell Labs). What about the > ADA compiler from the GNU folks? Where do you draw the line between > 'useful to some' and 'bloat'. When "some" becomes a significant percentage of "users". > It was decided a *LONG* time ago that unless a utility was part of the > standard BSD distribution and/or was required for the running system it > shouldn't be part of the tree. I don't ever recall this. > 'libforms' was recently deleted since it was a 'good idea' that never > came to pass. It might have been a useful tool, but *FreeBSD* doesn't > use it. Hell, even I don't use it and I wrote it. It should never have gone into the tree in the first place but people have differing opinions about how to use cvs and at the time it was a way to get the code shared amongst the developers. -- 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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