From owner-cvs-all Sat Sep 5 14:46:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA15314 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:46:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles176.castles.com [208.214.165.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA15306; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:46:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06551; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 14:51:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809052151.OAA06551@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) cc: 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "05 Sep 1998 23:17:25 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 14:51:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAB15310 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? It's not being written in Tcl, it uses Tcl as glue. This is what Tcl is designed for, and something that Perl does very poorly. Please, enough with the language wars already. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com