Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:14:21 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: dmaddox@scsn.net Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/perl5 Makefile ports/lang/perl5/pkg PLIST Message-ID: <199810120914.LAA00706@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:29:54 -0400." <19981012042954.C1296@scsn.net> References: <199810120651.XAA26861@freefall.freebsd.org> <19981012042954.C1296@scsn.net>
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> > Perl 5 is in the system. Mark this port broken for 3.0 for that reason. > > There may be good reasons to mark this broken, but it seems to me that this > is not one of them. When TCL was in the system, we still had a choice... TCL is no shining example. TCL was available in a few different versions, with little backward compatability maintained and lots of ports highly dependant on the previous versions. If the system TCL was too visible, it broke these ports. I have no intention of letting this happen with perl. If you wish to repair the perl5 port, patch out the relevant lines and run it on your system, this is 100% fine by me; if you want to have half our userbase using ports perl5 "just because they can", I suggest you consider the support nightmare before doing it. There is no functional difference (or there should not be any) between ports perl5 and system perl5; ergo, there is no need for both. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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