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Date:      05 Sep 1998 23:17:25 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/lib Makefile src/etc/mtree BSD.usr.dist src Makefile.inc1 src/usr.bin/vi Makefile src/usr.bin/tclsh Makefile src/lib/libtcl Makefile
Message-ID:  <xzpogsucl96.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:06:12 -0700"
References:  <14535.905015172@time.cdrom.com>

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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes:
> 2. Eugene will continue to work on his TCL-requiring "new package
>    system" and, just as soon as it's ready to bring in an initial
>    version, Satoshi will add back in whatever the latest version of
>    TCL is so that we can use it.

Is it really necessary to write the new package system in Tcl? Can't
it be written in Perl? Am I the only one to consider Tcl bloat?

For the record, I consider Perl bloat as well, but it's useful and
well established (there are 14 Perl scripts in (/usr)?/s?bin), so I
won't groan too loudly.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no



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