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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Makewhatis Broken? Date: 1 Feb 1997 22:41:46 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5d0gra$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5chp2p$p2u@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <5coivj$l88@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5ctn3o$ha1@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34875 espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote: > >Huh? /usr/bin/perl is still Perl 4. > > And is it going to be changed to perl 5 anytime soon? At least not soon. We still lack a good idea to import the `meat' of Perl 5 only into the base system, without bloating the base source tree by importing all the whistles and bells and the kitchensink. Every idea we've got so far would have either caused another multi- megabyte bloat, or a maintenance nightmare. :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)