From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 5:27:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A7137B41A for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 05:27:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phoenix.squirrel.nl (sioban.squirrel.nl [213.84.56.213]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g41CQkmx094183; Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: by phoenix.squirrel.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id AA1308BA02; Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Johan Vromans To: Johnny Lam Cc: hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk, Mark Murray , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, perl5-porters@perl.org Subject: Re: Save a few hunderd kilobytes or a few hundred perl users? References: <200204302129.g3ULT1oI033122@grimreaper.grondar.org> <200205010322.g413Mie22563@crypt.compulink.co.uk> <20020430204803.A11778@jgrind.home> Message-Id: <20020501122645.AA1308BA02@phoenix.squirrel.nl> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 14:26:45 +0200 (CEST) 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 Johnny Lam 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message