[OmniOS-discuss] perl : only for pkg tools?

[Mayuresh Kathe]

theo, thanks for those links, much appreciated. :)


On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 05:39:07PM -0400, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:
> perl is likely to stay, but the perl shipped in core is for use by core.
>  We can change configuration and the version at any time.
> 
> If you really want perl to power your app, you should consider building
> your own perl.
> 
> See:
> http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms/
> http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-perl/
> 
> For how we do it at OmniTI.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:52:00PM -0400, Eric Sproul wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in>
> > wrote:
> > > > hi, is perl included in the base distribution only
> > > > for supporting pkg tools?
> > >
> > > Most of the pkg toolkit is in Python, but:
> > >
> > > pkg search -r 'depend::runtime/perl'
> > >
> > > shows that quite a few things in upstream illumos do require perl.
> >
> > great, that means, perl is here to stay... :)
> >
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