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From:
Gabor Szabo
Date:
June 30, 2007 21:25
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
d8a74af10706302125u7a14aa99s4cb1cdc8a53f5c60@mail.gmail.com
On 6/30/07, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:43:30PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
>
> > A standard set of XML handling libraries so Perl can finally join the
> > XML party.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> They are on CPAN already. In addition to CPAN, most operating systems that
> provide perl as standard also have their own packaging system capable of
> installing them.

I don't know how much the perl porters can do for this but I would
much more appreciate if there were more modules available in their own
packing system.
http://www.szabgab.com/distributions/

> It is, of course, quite possible for anyone (already) to ship a
> consisting of the perl core plus other useful modules. For example,
> ActiveState do this.

This would be again probably not a request on this list but I think if
Vanilla Perl got more attention and had a large set of additional
packages included...

-- 
Gabor Szabo

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