[illumos-Developer] webrev: 377 removal of perl 5.8.4

Tue Nov 2 10:29:16 PDT 2010

On Nov 2, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> As long as there is no way to define a clean way to create a modular ON, I am 
> against removing things that are needed for compilation.

The compilers are required for compilation and not in O/N. There will always be things not in O/N that are required for the system. Perl is one of those things (unless someone rewrites Kstat, Projects(5) and intrd(1M).)

-JohnS