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

[Moinak Ghosh]

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:10 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
> 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? :-)
>

   I can look into the proj* stuff. However there are a bunch of
   other things like pginfo, pgstat, lari, one cfgadm plugin etc.
   that also are Perl scripts. All that have to be re-whacked
   before Perl can be dropped from ON build.

Regards,
Moinak.
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