Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 09:02:15 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200205080802.g4882FjV006670@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020507202743.83455K-100000@fledge.watson.org> ; from Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> "Tue, 07 May 2002 20:33:04 EDT." References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020507202743.83455K-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> First question is -- people are going to be upgrading FreeBSD. Having a > stale /usr/bin/perl is going to muck stuff up royally. Likewise, many > existing scripts use /usr/bin/perl at that location. Can we simply have a > symlink that points /usr/bin/perl at /usr/local/bin/perl (and any related > pseudo-programs such as suidperl, etc) as part of the normal install along > with the perl package. DES(?) has a piece of code (to be called /usr/bin/perl) that will find the "real" perl and DTRT. > Likewise, it would be good to clear out the lib > stuff if we can to prevent the inevitable breakage there during the > upgrade. If we hook symlink creation into the build, that would also > force us buildworld/installworld'ers to install the package, which would > improve exposure. Do Perl applications typically hard code paths, or just > rely on Perl to "know where to look"? Perl knows where to look for its libraries. We have the precedent of telnet cleaning out libtelnet; I'm sure we can put a temporary perl- killer in some makefile (Part of "make installworld"? Part of mergemaster?) to clean up. > Second -- are you volunteering to clean up the applications that are > as-yet unclaimed? DES has started on sockstat, and there's been an > on-going effort to fix the build to not need perl (now completed). Or at > least, can you coordinate the effort via a task list, etc? If we go that route, no problem. > Third -- is this something you envision hitting RELENG_4, or just 5.0? NO WAY! CURRENT only. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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