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Re: no more perl in BSD coreby Kanji (Parson) |
on May 11, 2002 at 03:37 UTC ( [id://165840]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
An avid FreeBSD user, I was saddened to see the thread that lead up to this, and even sadder when Mark Murray made it official. As I understand it, however, Perl will be turned into an optional but (possibly?) installed by default package in a fashion similar to the handling of X11 (think Solaris 8, if you're familiar with how Perl is installed on that) which (w|sh)ould satisfy all those who bellyache over the 'bloat' that Perl adds to core while still keeping the rest of us happy campers ... hardly doom and gloom. Heck, divorced from core, us FreeBSD users might finally see a better effort of staying in sync with the current stable version of Perl, rather than waiting for the committers to import it into the FreeBSD source tree or by trying to build our own over an already existing 5.005_03 install. Possibly a more important development out of all this brouhaha (to the Perl community, anyway) is the formation of perl-dist@perl.org to address the evergrowing size of the base Perl distribution(s)...
Also, for anyone wanting to read up more on this whole situation, I suggest the following (in roughly chronological order).
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