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> (I promise that this is my last message about this matter to this large a > recipient list. Who is the maintainer of the Perl package in FreeBSD? > Anton Berezin, I think? tobez@freebsd.org CCed.) Me - markm@freebsd.org > Though I disagree with the tone of Dan Kogai, I must agree on the > technical grounds that leaving away standard modules and still calling > it "Perl" is not quite right. > > I think both from the viewpoints of the Perl distribution *and* an OS > distribution *IF* modules have to be left out for space-saving reasons > the fair thing to do would be to make it clear to the users of the OS > distribution that what they are getting is not the full Perl. This > will cut down the number of misunderstandings on both sides. Fair enough. > 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. > 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. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn #text/plain; name=cv.doc [Mark Murray CV Plain Text] cv.doc #application/octet-stream; name=cv.pdf [Mark Murray CV PDF] cv.pdf