On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:59:32PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote: > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it well advertised in FreeBSD that by default although there is a > > "/usr/bin/perl" installed with some libraries, it is not (and does not > > claim to be) the fully featured (including cruft) perl source kit? > > Since the trimmed perl is for system maintenance and configuration > only, I'd expect it in some system specific location (e.g., > /usr/sysconfig/tools/perl) instead of /usr/bin/perl.
Likewise. Either a different place or a different name. Much of the recent furor would have been gone or diminished if the FreeBSD tool had not been /usr/bin/perl. /usr/bin/perl is both by documentation and by tradition a contract saying: "Hi, I'm the full Perl, you can use me". Well, modulo Perl releases, of course, so it's more like saying "Hi, I'm one of the official Perls, you can use me."-- and official Perls do include the respective modules. > -- Johan -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
