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