Re: Rewriting pg_upgrade

pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian) writes:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> 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?

Because it's a REALLY BIG ball of mud to include as a core dependancy?

Don't get me wrong; I have several Emacs buffers presently open to
Perl programs; it's a _useful_ ball of mud. But big ball of mud it
certainly is, and it seems unremarkable that there would be some
reluctance to be dependent on it.

There's a LOT of stuff going on with Perl (Parrot + Perl6), and for
the FreeBSD folk to be reluctant to "contract" to all that change
seems unsurprising.
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