From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 5 2:20:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F2337B40C for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:20:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 613FC43FBD for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:20:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@freebsd.org) Received: from master.gorean.org (12-234-22-23.client.attbi.com[12.234.22.23]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <200303051020190020080j74e>; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:20:20 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:20:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton To: Subscriber Cc: "FreeBSD-Current (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Plea for base system trim In-Reply-To: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C36704129AE6@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> Message-ID: <20030305021455.O18288@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C36704129AE6@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-message-flag: Outlook -- Not just for spreading viruses anymore! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG D'oh, I forgot the other half of my response (I KNOW you're disappointed by this). :) A big part of the reason that perl was cut is that bmake'ing the build was a NIGHTMARE. By contrast, the BIND bmake glue is not terribly difficult to maintain. The other contributing factors were the license (not BSD friendly, although not as bad as some other things), the fact that we'd already cut other interpreted languages like tcl, and the fact that the perl state of the art moves faster than our major release cycles. Of course, it doesn't help that perl weenies (of which I'm one) tend to like the bleeding edge, and FreeBSD is (rightfully) more of a comfortable, "don't upgrade it if it already works" kind of place. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message