[illumos-Developer] On Perl

[Dmitry Yusupov]

> -----Original Message-----
> > I prefer just /usr/bin/perl or maybe  /usr/bin/perl5.12...
> 
> I disagree. /usr/bin/perl5.12 makes upgrading a great deal more
difficult in
> the future (since everything that uses perl such as intrd(1M) would
have to
> be modified) and /usr/bin/perl makes demands of the distributions that
the
> canonical perl be the required system perl, ie they can't deliver
their own
> newer/older perl with different features as the canonical perl.
> 
> Pointing to /usr/perl5/bin/perl is a good compromise IMO of having a
central
> unversioned place to find system perl, without forcing anyone who
doesn't
> want to to use potentially outdated technology

But there are groups out there who wants to use different versions of
Perl, different philosophical locations of /usr/bin, etc...
That's why it is a good idea to break Illumos dependency (and maybe
relax some API deps as well) on Perl at some point and let distributions
decide.