David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:37:36AM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Well, playing the devil's advocate -- isn't this the type of discussion the > > preceeded the introduction of Perl into the base system, the introduction of > > which created such a mess that we finally took Perl out of the base system > > in -CURRENT? > > The created mess that caused us to take Perl out of the base system is > that it cannot be cross built. This library is C/C++ code; so we can > easily cross compile it.
I thought cross-building was a side issue to the fact that the system Perl was seen by Perl advocates as being "incomplete", for lacking things like CGI libraries, etc.. I remember the CGI stuff specifically, because there was a complaint of some "standard Perl code from CPAN" which would not run under FreeBSD's version of Perl. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
