Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:56 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> It looks the the symlink /usr/bin/perl (to /usr/local/bin/perl) has > >>> been removed at least on FreeBSD 10.3. See [1] for more information. > >>> > >>> [1] https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/UPDATING?r1=386270&r2=386269&pathrev=386270&diff_format=c Ah, I missed that. I guess that explains why nobody complained about the problem sooner. > >>> Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> > >>> --- > >>> Tested with fbsd 10.3, kvm image. But I suppose it's the same as real > >>> fbsd. > >> > >> Thanks; and we know that older (but not too old that we no longer care about) > >> FreeBSD all have /usr/local/bin/perl? > > > > I'm no fbsd expert but from the first sentence in [1] "Perl has been > > removed from base more than ten years ago..." I would assume it meant > > "... removed from base, _to_ ports system" which means /usr/local for > > all package installation (for ten years for perl). So I think we are > > good. > > I guess we didn't follow through > > http://public-inbox.org/git/%3C20160720025630.GA71874%40plume%3E/ > > and allowed the thread to drift into a tangent? +Cc Dscho I've been meaning to followup on that, but had connectivity problems to my VM last week. I still prefer we use numeric comparisons for version numbers since numbers are... numeric. IOW, I prefer we go with my original patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html