From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 1 7: 3:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from crypt.compulink.co.uk (s39.pool.pm3-tele-3.cix.co.uk [194.153.23.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B346337B404 for ; Wed, 1 May 2002 07:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crypt.compulink.co.uk (hv@localhost) by crypt.compulink.co.uk (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g41E6vW23574; Wed, 1 May 2002 15:06:58 +0100 Message-Id: <200205011406.g41E6vW23574@crypt.compulink.co.uk> To: Johan Vromans Cc: Johnny Lam , Mark Murray , 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: <20020501122645.AA1308BA02@phoenix.squirrel.nl> Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 15:06:57 +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 Johan Vromans wrote: :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? Not that I'm aware; volunteers welcome. Hugo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message