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On 02/07/07, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote: > It is surprising (shocking, disappointing) to notice that "perl > usability" is apparently not relevant. At the contrary, I think it's most relevant. We want perl to be useable on many platforms (including the weird ones Jarkko keeps finding.) We don't have resources or hardware access to fix the portability of many modules on every platform. So the core distro has to avoid domain-specific modules (like XML parsers, templating systems, GUIs, DBI, logging, etc.) Those belong to "enhanced distributions" of perl, which can bundle more modules at the expense of being less portable. There have been efforts made in this direction, including (iirc) a google summer of code project, but I see nothing officially supported on the perl.org homepage with a dedicated mailing list and volunteers and stuff. But that won't happen otherwise.Thread Previous | Thread Next