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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!psgrain!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: perl (was: Re: shells) Date: 14 Feb 1997 13:29:48 GMT Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France Lines: 31 Message-ID: <5e1pcc$qql@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <5dum9s$e1o@newsgate.duke.edu> <5dviec$32l@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5e0cup$q8f@nntp1.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35568 In article <5e0cup$q8f@nntp1.u.washington.edu>, William R. Somsky <somsky@dirac.phys.washington.edu> wrote: >And in article <5dviec$32l@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr>, >Roger Espel Llima <espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr> wrote: >> >> I don't feel, uhm, as strongly as you do, but I generally agree. bash, >> zsh and tcsh should probably be "part of the system", as should perl 5 >> rather than 4 (it's been out for years, boys). > >They're there as ports and packages. And when you do the installation, >even before it finishes, there's a bit where you can pick additional >things to have installed, including -- believe it or not -- shells! > >I like tcsh myself, and when I installed FreeBSD, I had it install >tcsh immediatly at the same time. You can't get much easier than >that. [ ... ] Okay with shells, it makes sense to draw the line there. How about perl though? You have perl 4 in the base distribution, and perl 5 as a package. perl 5 has been out for years, and is, at this point, more stable than perl 4. Why not ditch perl 4 altogether (or make it a package and install it as /usr/local/bin/perl4), and have perl 5 in the base distribution? Roger -- e-mail: roger.espel.llima@ens.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html