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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Tue Nov 2 14:40:33 PDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 10:29 -0700, John Sonnenschein wrote:
> 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).)

I have someone working on Kstat and intrd.  Any takers for Projects? :-)

	- Garrett

> 
> -JohnS
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