Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 23:11:16 +0100 From: regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org (Philippe Regnauld) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Base tree bloating (Was: ex/vi version 1.79 now available for anonymous ftp.) Message-ID: <199610282211.XAA05369@tetard.glou.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 28, 1996 21:14:18 %2B0100 References: <199610281823.TAA04298@ravenock.cybercity.dk> <199610282014.VAA01918@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch (j) ecrit/writes:
> suffers from some bugs. We better might find a way to update it by
> Perl 5, but with still leaving most of the bloat in an optional port.
That makes it mostly functional for some, and half for others.
I hate to think about the discussion on where to draw the line on
what's 'in' and what's 'out'.
> > I have looked at the perl junk we have in the tree, all of it could be
> > rewritten in a very short time....
>
> Ick. Of course. We could also whack everything in C, or revert the
> entire system back to the V7 level. Jordan doesn't need to write his
> new sysinstall in Tcl, either. ;-)
Ok, maybe that was not a good suggestion :-P I'm personally more
than grateful for th sysinstall work Jordan's doing, to the point
where I don't mind having TCL in the source tree. Also TCL is
widely accepted in the UNIX world (then again so is Perl...)
> We should agree that a modern system might come with modern tools, and
> rather seek to reduce the bloat to a fair limit. E.g., Tcl is there
^^^^^^^^^^
There's the dilemma.
--
-- Phil
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