Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output of a base perl function having changed

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Yes I know how to use the OS, I'm more sking for historical rivia reasons. -Dan I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 21 June 2008 01:02, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread andrew clarke
On Fri 2008-06-20 19:40:04 UTC-0400, DAve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: No unused perl install, no issues with software getting confused about which perl to run, no need for... what was that command to use the port perl instead of the base perl? I cannot remember anymore. The command was

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-21 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 7:02 PM -0400 6/20/08, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the

Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-20 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output of a base perl function having

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output

Re: Circumstance leading up to removal of perl from base?

2008-06-20 Thread DAve
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello all, I know it was a long time ago, but I was talking with a co-worker about why perl was removed from the base in v5 -- I seem to recall a discussion on some mailing list about either the number of arguments or the format of the arguments and/or output