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

[Ben Kaduk]

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