docs/120152: dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system

[Ben Kaduk]

The following reply was made to PR docs/120152; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com>
To: freebsd-doc at freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/120152: dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 21:57:51 -0500

 On 1/30/08, Michael Voorhis <mvoorhis at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
 >
 > >Number:         120152
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       dev-handbook/tools-intro.html claims perl in base system
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-doc
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 30 14:50:00 UTC 2008
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Michael Voorhis
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE i386
 > >Organization:
 > WPI Computer Science Dept.
 > >Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD xxx.wpi.edu 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Jan 17 11:26:40 EST 2008 root at xxx.wpi.edu:/usr/obj/FreeBSD/src-releng_7/src/sys/xxx i386
 >
 > >Description:
 > The file doc/en/books/developers-handbook/tools-intro.html claims:
 >
 >    Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the
 >    basic system, not to mention a Perl interpreter and classic UNIX
 >    tools such as sed and awk.
 >
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >
 > Read the relevant section (2.2 Introduction) of a recent developer's
 > handbook, first sentence.  My handbook was cvsup'd from the docs
 > on the 29th January 2008, in the afternoon US/Eastern time.
 >
 > >Fix:
 >
 > I'd remove the reference to Perl in this sentence, rewriting:
 >
 >    Compilers for C, C++, and Fortran and an assembler come with the
 >    basic system, not to mention classic UNIX tools such as sed and
 >    awk.
 >
 
 I thought that the Fortran compiler had been removed from the base
 system for 7.0 -- please correct me if I'm wrong.
 
 -Ben Kaduk