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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!oleane!in2p3.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!itesec!sidhe.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Perl Date: 11 Dec 1995 14:50:12 GMT Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4ahgf4$hul@sidhe.hsc-sec.fr> References: <DJEHtG.9o@ritz.mordor.com> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: sidhe.hsc-sec.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <DJEHtG.9o@ritz.mordor.com>, Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: > I was just wondering why version 4 of perl is still > included with FreeBSD. Seems like it would make more > sense to only include the later version (5.001m?). In fact no. The current Perl is enough to run the vast majority of scripts and it is *small*. I think Perl5 is a great language -- I use it myself -- but I don't it in the *base* dist. It is far too large. It is easy to compile for anyone who want it. Having it the base dist would complicate the addition of extentions too because most of them need to be in ext/ and we don't want to maintain them. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=-=- FreeBSD 2.x FAQ maintainer -=-=- roberto@freebsd.org -=-=-=-=-=- Support The Free UNIX Systems ! FreeBSD Linux NetBSD -=-=-=-=-=-