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

From:
David O'Brien
Date:
May 1, 2002 11:30
Subject:
Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users?
Message ID:
20020501105319.D70018@dragon.nuxi.com
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:17:40AM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote:
> Speaking of which, the whole build process does not use objective-C 
> (correct me if I am wrong).  

The cost of Objective-C, given we have to have C, is 1 minute in build
time, and 390K of diskspace (installed).  This is several orders of
manitude below Perl 5.6.x.


> So if you insist on stripping Perl it may 
> as well be unfair to leave GCC unstripped (I pretty much doubt GPL 
> allows you to do so, however).

Why in the world do you think the GPL prevents that?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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