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0 pointschasil4y ago0 comments

OpenBSD's binary package system is written in perl.

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Probably as much for legacy reasons as anything else. Perl was the chosen scripting language for utilities, it works, they understand it, and they've kept with it. Sort of how they stay with CVS for their source repository.

Python isn't even installed on a base OpenBSD system.

chasilOP4y ago

Mark Espie rewrote the entire package system in perl in 2010, which is a bit late to be classed as legacy.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20100323141307

I'm not sure what was used for the version before this, but the original BSD package system was written in C.

throwawayboise4y ago

But perl was already the "standard" for other system/config utilities, no?

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throwawayboise4y ago

Python isn't even installed on a base OpenBSD system.

chasilOP4y ago

Mark Espie rewrote the entire package system in perl in 2010, which is a bit late to be classed as legacy.

https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20100323141307

I'm not sure what was used for the version before this, but the original BSD package system was written in C.

throwawayboise4y ago

But perl was already the "standard" for other system/config utilities, no?

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