Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> To: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org> Cc: hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? Message-ID: <20020501122645.AA1308BA02@phoenix.squirrel.nl> References: <200204302129.g3ULT1oI033122@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200205010322.g413Mie22563@crypt.compulink.co.uk> <20020430204803.A11778@jgrind.home>
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Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org> writes:
> perl-5.10.0
> perl-library-standard-1.0
> perl-library-ISP-1.0
> ...
Whatever approach we take, two major problems must be solved to
accomplish this:
1: A perl distribution must be able to be (re)located anywhere and
use itself as a starting point to find its additional libraries
and modules.
The way ActiveState's rpm handles it (by patching the binaries and
scripts) works, but defeats the rpm functionality to verify an
installation.
2: Add-on modules (base-perl and site-perl) must be able to fit
themselves into an existing perl installation so they can be
distributed in prebuilt form.
In short, we need componentized, prebuilt distributions.
Is this being worked on already?
-- Johan
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