Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:32:07 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu> Subject: Re: perl wrapper and PATH Message-ID: <3D040FA7.9D688E74@FreeBSD.org> References: <20020608110834.A25686@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020608141128.D403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> <20020609104850.GC25520@heechee.tobez.org> <p05111735b929a79337b7@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> At 12:48 PM +0200 6/9/02, Anton Berezin wrote:
> >On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:14:09PM -0400, Trish Lynch wrote:
> >
> > > Anton, if you don;t get around to it this weekend, mind
> > > if I take a stab at it?
> >
> >No, I don't mind at all. If only we can agree who does what. :-(
>
> RPI has been running with something like the perl wrapper on our
> systems for many years. It can be very useful, if it's done
> right. My fear is that everyone is hoping for some quick fix
> (something as quick as creating a symlink), and does not want
> to really think about what we want from this wrapper.
And yet, with the use.perl script installed as part of the port, we can
provide a solution that IS, "as quick as creating a symlink." tobez and
I were discussing it some last night, and we have an idea for just
automatically doing the right thing for -current systems that have no
perl installed.
I agree that for users who want perl, we should have a /usr/bin/perl
that "just works." I also agree that more thought needs to go into what
form that takes.
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