From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 20:48:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jgrind.org (adsl-63-200-154-54.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.200.154.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F028437B41B for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 11789 invoked by uid 1002); 1 May 2002 03:48:03 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:48:03 -0700 From: Johnny Lam To: hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk Cc: Mark Murray , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? Message-ID: <20020430204803.A11778@jgrind.home> References: <200204302129.g3ULT1oI033122@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200205010322.g413Mie22563@crypt.compulink.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <200205010322.g413Mie22563@crypt.compulink.co.uk> 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 On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:22:44AM +0100, Hugo van der Sanden wrote: > > 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. The "my ISP won't install CPAN packages" problem would be solved by my proposal of having separate perl-5.10.0 and perl-library-1.0 distributions because *both* would be recommended to be installed by the Perl community, and the world-at-large would learn that they really need to install both to match the functionality of previous releases of perl. My proposal also makes it easy to create the targetted Perl installations that you're suggesting: perl-5.10.0 perl-library-standard-1.0 perl-library-ISP-1.0 perl-library-bioinformatics-1.0 perl-library-sysadmin-1.0 ... A user would install perl-5.10.0 then choose the Perl module library most relevant to his/her domain of interest. They could each have individual release cycles, and the responsibility for the domain- specific Perl libraries could be delegated to the groups that have the most experience within those domains. Cheers, -- Johnny Lam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message