Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Progress Report MacPerl 5.6

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 11:53 AM -0300 10/21/99, Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca wrote:
>Quoting Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>:
>
> > At 7:35 +0200 1999.10.21, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:
> > > - Someone has to sync all the non-core libraries with their latest
> > version
> > >   and decide what to bundle (Chris, I hope).
> >
> > OK, I need a list of modules.  Here is what I have so far.
> >
> > Archive::Tar
> > Compress::Zlib
> > Convert::BinHex
> > Data::Dumper
> > Digest::MD5
> > DB_File
> > FreezeThaw
> > GD
> > HTML::Parser
> > LWP
> > libnet
> > A bunch of different Mac::* modules
> > MailTools
> > MIME::Base64
> > MLDBM
> > Net::Telnet
> > Storable
> > URI
> >
> > Anything missed?  Need to be added?  Should be removed?
> >
>What are group thoughts on bundling XML::Parser? As far as the API is
>concerned it is quite stable, and a current version will serve people
>well into the future.


Sounds OK to me.  Chris, is there anything in that list above that 1) 
isn't XS, and 2) isn't needed by cpan-mac?  The only ones I can see 
offhand are MailTools and Net::Telnet.  I'm thinking that now that 
it's feasible for people to install things on their own direct from 
CPAN that pure Perl modules that aren't necessary for cpan-mac and 
have MacPerl patches included in the standard distribution should be 
removed from the MacPerl distribution.  If people want them, they can 
easily get them now.

But we should think about adding other XS modules that might be useful.

>
>I realize that this is sort of on the dividing line between fundamental
>and nice-to-have, but it's an idea. Speaking of which, when we move
>MacPerl up to 5.6 land, then the ltxml stuff by Ken MacLeod becomes viable.
>
> > Is everyone on this list who should be so they can help?  :)
> >
>I think I'm here. :-) This status of tenuous connection with reality varies.
>
>I can commit some time to testing, certainly.
>
>Arved
>
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