Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 02:20:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806210215120.74296@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <485C3C06.3050702@FreeBSD.org> References: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0806201845080.56988@prime.gushi.org> <485C3C06.3050702@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why >> perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on >> some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the >> arguments and/or output of a base perl function having changed between >> 5.005 and 5.6.1. >> >> Thing is, that's a very vague thing to try to google for, and I can't seem >> to find it. Are there any old-timers who remember the system call in >> question? > > I dont think it was that. AFAICR the issue was mostly that it was a *lot* of > work to mangle the perl build into bmake format so it would build with make > world, and it was also difficult to avoid conflicts with other versions of > perl that needed to be installed for port builds. It was just too difficult > to maintain in the base system, especially when nothing used it. Yeah, most of my recent re-reading is showing that...but there's something so distinct in my mind that I'm recalling, some function that changed its meaning, return values, and/or number of arguements around that time. I realize that may not be the ONLY reason, and I'm seeing a lot of the predominant other....still, this is going to bug me, now. I could of course just be insane. Personally, I miss the adduser written in perl -- there's a feature that was in that version that's not in the current (integration with /var/yp and the ability to automagically run make in that dir). -Dan -- "When I'm lost, and confused, and trying to make a U-turn, nothing annoys me more than someone telling me to watch out for the tombstone!" "How often does that happen, Fab?" -David Feld & Tom Fabry, sometime in High School. --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Site: http://www.gushi.org ---------------------------
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