From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 8 11:14:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from femme.listmistress.org (bgp01560565bgs.gambrl01.md.comcast.net [68.50.32.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86A437B406; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 11:14:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from femme.listmistress.org (trish@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by femme.listmistress.org (8.12.3/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g58IEDMO028938; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:14:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (trish@localhost) by femme.listmistress.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g58IE9KG028935; Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:14:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: femme.listmistress.org: trish owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:14:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Trish Lynch X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Anton Berezin , Trish Lynch , John Hay , Szilveszter Adam Subject: Re: perl wrapper and PATH In-Reply-To: <20020608110834.A25686@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: <20020608141128.D403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> 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 On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. > Exactly, the reason for the "wrapper" even if its not a wrapper, but a placeholder, is to notify people that there has been a change, and you now need to install the perl port for perl. The optimum behaviour would be to "use.perl port" when its installed, and if the port is removed, have the placeholder still in place. (a -current version of use.perl system) > > 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. > *nod* Anton, if you don;t get around to it this weekend, mind if I take a stab at it? -Trish -- Trish Lynch trish@bsdunix.net FreeBSD The Power to Serve Ecartis Core Team trish@listmistress.org http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message