If I understand correctly, your argument is that its going to take longer now to install a new system because people are going to have to install the core, and then install Perl in a second step.

As a person who uses BSD a great deal, I can tell you that the first thing I do after installing BSD is upgrade perl to the latest version. The reason being that the BSD distribution is stuck in the stone ages with perl 5.005_03. So, if you are happy with perl 5.0, then you have a valid point.. it will take an extra step. But, if you want to be using perl 5.6, then your point is moot because it already takes an extra step anyway.

As Kanji has already pointed out, "divorced from core, us FreeBSD users might finally see a better effort of staying in sync with the current stable version of Perl, rather than waiting for the committers to import it into the FreeBSD source tree or by trying to build our own over an already existing 5.005_03 install." I second that motion.

<Counter-Flame> BSD people are good at making bicycles because thats all they worry about. They don't worry about knowing how to make the best reflector, and they don't sell you a bike with a reflector built in (break the reflector, and you broke the bike). They do, however give you the choice of a lot of other people that are experts in making reflectors and let you choose. Once you have chosen, they'll gladly install that reflector for you (See The FreeBSD ports collection). To me, that's at least part of what Open-Source development is about. </Counter-Flame>

UPDATE Fixed grammar

In reply to Re: BSD relegating Perl is short-sighted by ehdonhon
in thread no more perl in BSD core by tstock

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