From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 17:09:25 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA01777 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:09:25 -0800 Received: from star-gate.com (hasty.vip.best.com [204.156.141.143]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA01771; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:09:22 -0800 Received: from localhost.mcs.com (localhost.mcs.com [127.0.0.1]) by star-gate.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA11169; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:03:55 GMT Message-Id: <199503281703.RAA11169@star-gate.com> X-Authentication-Warning: star-gate.com: Host localhost.mcs.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6alpha 2/16/95 To: Nate Williams cc: Jeff , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:45:35 MST." <199503290045.RAA12232@trout.sri.MT.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 17:03:53 +0000 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Nate Williams said: > > What version of perl will ship with 2.1? If it is version 5, then I will > > port Pearl Vision over to FreeBSD, which is a pretty slick pearl > > extension that puts dialog to shame (IMHO). > > I don't think Perl5 is quite ready for prime-time, and although patch2 > will be out RSN which may fix most of the remaining critical bugs it > would be unwise to rely on a tool that may/may not be stable. Perl4 > (the version in the tree) works and all of our stuff has been tested > with it. Making that large of a change which many of the scripts and > such rely on at this stage of the game is not a good idea IMHO. > > Maybe for 2.2 is someone wants to bmake it. (hint, hint) Perl may not be but tcl/tk is ready for prime time and someone posted that there is already a bmake of tcl/tk for netbsd. Again, something like an installation tool will be trivial to implement in tcl/tk which will work for X and curses. If it helps, SCO has standardized on using all the sys admin tools around tcl/tk. Amancio