From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 5 14:19:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12814 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA12808; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id XAA14662; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:17:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:17:26 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src Makefile.inc1 src/usr.bin/vi Makefile src/usr.bin/tclsh Makefile src/lib/libtcl Makefile References: <14535.905015172@time.cdrom.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 05 Sep 1998 23:17:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:06:12 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAB12809 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > 2. Eugene will continue to work on his TCL-requiring "new package > system" and, just as soon as it's ready to bring in an initial > version, Satoshi will add back in whatever the latest version of > TCL is so that we can use it. Is it really necessary to write the new package system in Tcl? Can't it be written in Perl? Am I the only one to consider Tcl bloat? For the record, I consider Perl bloat as well, but it's useful and well established (there are 14 Perl scripts in (/usr)?/s?bin), so I won't groan too loudly. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no