Subject: Re: NetBSD master CVS tree commits
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/15/1998 22:43:28
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 23:10:53 -0400 (EDT)
woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) wrote:
> A *perl* script?!?!?
>
> Csh would be bad enough, but Perl?!?!?
>
> So far as I know NetBSD still doesn't come with perl by default. Yes, I
> realize that only "developers" will ever really need to run this thing,
> but still....
Um, there's precedent for using perl (gcc script uses perl, I think the
amd one does, too)
Eventually, I'd like to see us switch to something more like I did w/
sup for third-party packages ("source" subdir, w/ .PATH directives).
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