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Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?

From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
April 30, 2002 11:13
Subject:
Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
Message ID:
20020430211255.L30405@alpha.hut.fi
> Me - markm@freebsd.org

Thanks.

> > Firstly, both the outputs of perl -v and perl -V should be amended.
> > For example:
> > 
> >   $ perl -v
> > 
> >   This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i686-freebsd
> 
> ... etc. I could do this.

Sounds okay.

> > Secondly, as the above message indicates, there should be a full Perl
> > installation available, using whatever packaging method is used by the
> > OS distribution.
> 
> FreeBSD has the ports collection that has a full install of Perl 5.6.1.

Sounds even more okay.

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