On Sun, Nov 06, 2016 at 12:09:30PM +0100, Eivind Nicolay Evensen wrote: > I also thought that perl was a good example of another piece of software > that once was provided and no longer is.
Yes, that's true, but somewhat different. perl was removed because keeping it became incompatible with the concept of the -stable branches. perl development was simply moving faster than FreeBSD major releases, leading to FreeBSD having to keep maintaining an obsolete piece of software far past the time upstream had dropped support for it. Of course this is a problem with any software that FreeBSD imports, but IIUC this may have been the most painful case. (I was just starting to use FreeBSD at the time, so was really just an observer.) mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
