Re: [MacPerl-Modules] cpan-mac stuff

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 07:55:56AM -0400, Bill Jones wrote:
} > 1.  Any problems with this?
} > 2.  When the next version of MacPerl comes out, should all of these modules
} > be rolled into the main MacPerl distribution (as some of them already are,
} > like libnet and LWP)?
} 
} If that is not too much trouble.  I feel it would help
} resolve versioning and updates tracking...
} 
} What's the likelihood of getting 'new everything'
} distributed with MacPerl's release?

Essentially zero, since a lot of the modules get updated regularly.
Even the main Perl distribution doesn't have 'new everything'
(probably not even the just released 5.6-to-be, although I didn't
check it).  Doing a CPAN run immediately after doing a perl install is
a tradition.  Versioning and tracking updated is the job of CPAN.pm,
and it does it pretty well.

But I'm sure we'll get 'almost new everything'.

My feeling is that anything that's needed to have cpan-mac running
properly should be included in the distribution.  Then useful XS
modules should be considered.  But since we now have CPAN.pm, pure
Perl can be left to the discresion of the user.

} 
} $0.02,
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Paul Schinder
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