Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 02:20:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Subscriber <subscriber@insignia.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-Current (E-mail)" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Plea for base system trim Message-ID: <20030305021455.O18288@znfgre.tberna.bet> In-Reply-To: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C36704129AE6@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> References: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C36704129AE6@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com>
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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
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