From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 20:18:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from crypt.compulink.co.uk (s150.pool.pm3-tele-1.cix.co.uk [194.153.23.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DDA37B417 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crypt.compulink.co.uk (hv@localhost) by crypt.compulink.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g413Mie22563; Wed, 1 May 2002 04:22:47 +0100 Message-Id: <200205010322.g413Mie22563@crypt.compulink.co.uk> To: Mark Murray Cc: Johnny Lam , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? Reply-To: hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk In-Reply-To: <200204302129.g3ULT1oI033122@grimreaper.grondar.org> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 04:22:44 +0100 From: Hugo van der Sanden Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Murray wrote: :> I think Perl should be broken into two pieces: a "miniperl" distribution :> that is called "Perl" and a separate "Standard Perl Module Library" :> distribution. They would be versioned separately so what's considered part :> of the core Perl language isn't confused with what version of CGI.pm or :> other random module is included with a Perl distribution. It's clear that :> the modules evolve much faster than Perl's release cycle, so the Perl :> Library distribution could simply be on its release cycle. : :I would be _delighted_ with this arrangement! *BSD could use the :"Perl" dist, and libraries would be excellent ports-fodder. This was an issue raised at the perl5-porters meeting during the conference in San Diego last year. I don't remember the details precisely - I'm trying to track them down - but as far as I can recall some consensus was reached that it should in principle be possible to find a way to offer particular subsets or supersets of the standard perl installation. There are some problems to be overcome, not least the social ones ("my ISP won't install CPAN packages"), but it may be possible to overcome some of them by providing installations targeted at particular domains - 'perl for booting', 'perl for ISPs' etc - with the same imprimatur as Perl itself. I hope to see some progress made on this in the 5.10 cycle. Hugo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message