From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 8 11: 9:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D537B401; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g58I8qJn025765; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g58I8Yee025764; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:08:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:08:34 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Anton Berezin Cc: Trish Lynch , John Hay , Szilveszter Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: perl wrapper and PATH Message-ID: <20020608110834.A25686@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Anton Berezin , Trish Lynch , John Hay , Szilveszter Adam , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200206080935.g589Z2v51306@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> <20020608094010.M403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> <20020608150739.GD13047@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020608150739.GD13047@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@FreeBSD.ORG on Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:07:39PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 05:07:39PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote: > It sounds reasonable, but what's the point of having a wrapper at all > then? One way or the other we need to have /usr/bin/perl exist and be usable. Many have perl scripts in ~/bin that they expect to run on all modern OS's -- which means they have /usr/bin/perl. > I am of the opinion that we don't need the wrapper and that use.perl can > easily do some symlink magic to solve all outstanding issues with perl > in -current. With the limitations in the exiting wrapper, either use.perl or using mailwrapper is probably what we should do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message