Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade (was Re: State of Beta 2)

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:42:02PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > > On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Isn't Perl pretty ubiquitous on "Unix" now, though? Except maybe
> > > > Unixware....
> > >
> > > I know that Solaris now has it included by default ...
> >
> > FWIW, FreeBSD just removed it (in the 5.x versions). Of course you can
> > still easily install it from ports.
>
> Interesting. Why would they remove it?

I can't recall the full justification, but there was alot of work done to
remove any operating dependencies on pelr so that it could be removed ...
there are several versions of perl currently 'stable', and too many ppl
crying out for "can't we have this one default", that it was just easier
to let ppl install which versino they want from ports when they install
the OS ...