Re: [HEADS UP] perl symlinks in /usr/bin will be gone

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 01/30/05

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    Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:48:33 +0000 (GMT)
To: Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET>

    On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Oliver Brandmueller wrote:

    > - Don't change the behaviour on -STABLE (4.x, 5.x), but make an OPTION
    > available, that would turn on the "new" behaviour.
    >
    > - For -CURRENT (6.x and beyond), if the change comes, make an OPTION
    > available, to turn on the "old" behaviour.

    I think I'd be against this also -- those who followed by google fight
    link will have seen there were about 1.6 million references to
    "#!/usr/bin/perl" in Google, vs only about 67,000 references to
    "#!/usr/bin/env perl". One of the important goals in the 6.x work is to
    avoid creating unnecessary barriers to upgrades, in order to make
    transition from 5-STABLE to 6-STABLE much more seamless than the
    transition from 4-STABLE to 5-STABLE has been. Breaking everyone's perl
    scripts can hardly be described as "making upgrades seamless". :-)

    Robert N M Watson

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