> > I'm not sure that is acceptable. I believe that perl 5.8.0 will be > > +- 45 MB. I cannot afford to import all of that - I'd get lynched. > > that is price, for example, for Unicode. > Okay, when many platforms will be doing stripping their tools, everyone > should remember where his perl programs are able to run and where they are > not and require additional dowloading. (I remember how I was disappointed > that Redhat linux distribution did not contained Tk in its distribution, > even for optional installation. It was a pain to rebuild) > > For me, nowadays 45MB is nothing compared to medium HDD capacity, and even > my POCKET PC will easily accomodate it...
45 MB is fine as a port - we have ports that are way bigger than that. As part of the base OS? Nope. The only functionality that we _need_ is the basic language - effectively miniperl. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
