`<div dir="ltr">perl is likely to stay, but the perl shipped in core is for use by core. We can change configuration and the version at any time.<div><br></div><div>If you really want perl to power your app, you should consider building your own perl.</div>
<div><br></div><div>See:</div><div><a href="http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms/">http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-ms/</a><br></div><div><a href="http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-perl/">http://pkg.omniti.com/omniti-perl/</a><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>For how we do it at OmniTI.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mayuresh@kathe.in" target="_blank">mayuresh@kathe.in</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 02:52:00PM -0400, Eric Sproul wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mayuresh Kathe <<a href="mailto:mayuresh@kathe.in">mayuresh@kathe.in</a>> wrote:<br>
> > hi, is perl included in the base distribution only<br>
> > for supporting pkg tools?<br>
><br>
> Most of the pkg toolkit is in Python, but:<br>
><br>
> pkg search -r 'depend::runtime/perl'<br>
><br>
> shows that quite a few things in upstream illumos do require perl.<br>
<br>
</div>great, that means, perl is here to stay... :)<br>
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