Re: [MacPerl-Porters] Progress Report MacPerl 5.6

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 12:15 -0400 1999.10.21, Paul Schinder wrote:
>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.

Well, MailTools is needed for perlbug to work with MacPerl, and I want
everyone to have easy access to perlbug with MacPerl, for obvious reasons
(I think :).

I forget why Net::Telnet was there in the first place.


>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.

Hm, I am not sure given your rationale what makes the XS modules any
different than pure Perl modules.  They can also be installed with
cpan-mac.  Well, it is harder to find them, this much is true, but other
than that I don't see a difference (aside from the fact that these things,
included with MacPerl, might possibly be statically linked to a Big68K
binary).

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