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From:
Brandon Black
Date:
June 30, 2007 09:01
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
84621a60706300901r5b45a92flb468be016dbb0e7f@mail.gmail.com
On 6/30/07, Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com> wrote:
>
> On Jun 30, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
>
> > A standard set of XML handling libraries so Perl can finally join the
> > XML party.
>
> Why do you see standard XML library as important? I would think if
> we're going to ship with another library standard, it would be LWP.
>
LWP would be nice in the sense that it makes bootstrapping CPAN
easier. In some installation environments (unfortunately, in many
I've had to work on), a fresh build of Perl is basically screwed for
CPAN access, as it tries to fetch MIRRORED.BY via ftp (Net::FTP),
which fails (firewall/NAT issues) often in a modern "the web is the
internet" idiocracy that goes on with corporate network management
these days. Even after manually fetching MIRRORED.BY and copying it
into place and selecting an http mirror, not all systems can use HTTP
transports without LWP, as they don't have the requisite fallback
commands like curl or wget.
-- Brandon
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