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Bug#3230: why the hell does perl depend on tcsh???



  Dirk> Perl needs tcsh for globbing. There were a couple of bug reports to
  Dirk> that extend.
  Ian>  No.  In the short term Perl should be configured to do its globbing
  Ian> without csh, and should not be made to depend on csh.
  Ian> 
  Ian> In the long term it should be fixed to use glob() of course.

Sure. I didn't mean to say that I like how perl depends on tcsh. 

I should have made it clear that it _currently_ depends on tcsh and that we
are aware of the problem as the different bug reports state.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd


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