[illumos-Developer] Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 10:41 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is a heads-up mainly for distribution maintainers
> >
> > with the putback of:
> >
> > 377 removal of perl 5.8.4
> >
> > Perl 5.8.4 and it's packages ( perl-584, perl-584/extras ) are no longer being delivered. One important result of this is that the /usr/perl5/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl is also not being delivered.
> 
> What porpose does this change have?
> 
> What problem does this change fix?
> 

It removes some 1M lines of code, which contributed significantly to
compile times, and which never should have been in ON in the first
place, out of ON.  Its also *obsolete*.

If you want or need perl, please get it from a distribution.  For
SchilliX, I recommend you package up perl yourself.

	- Garrett

> Jörg
>