[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: >> FWIW, FreeBSD just removed it (in the 5.x versions). Of course you can >> still easily install it from ports. > > Interesting. Why would they remove it?
Because it's a REALLY BIG ball of mud to include as a core dependancy? Don't get me wrong; I have several Emacs buffers presently open to Perl programs; it's a _useful_ ball of mud. But big ball of mud it certainly is, and it seems unremarkable that there would be some reluctance to be dependent on it. There's a LOT of stuff going on with Perl (Parrot + Perl6), and for the FreeBSD folk to be reluctant to "contract" to all that change seems unsurprising. -- output = reverse("ofni.smrytrebil" "@" "enworbbc") <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster