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From:
Adriano Ferreira
Date:
July 2, 2007 04:31
Subject:
Re: Beyond 5.10
Message ID:
73ddeb6c0707020431h1d0a5709wd3e1986e46727721@mail.gmail.com
On 7/1/07, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote:
> Wow! There are many, many, MANY things in the Perl core that may be
> considered bloat, and they are stil being added on a regular basis. To
> name some, how often do you use Text::SoundEx? shmget?
> Pod::InputObjects? Env? CGI::Pretty? Tie::Hash::NamedCapture?
> Module::Loaded? Archive::Tar?

Some of these has entered the core a long time ago. As discussed,
people expect them to be there and so back-compatibility issues are on
stake.

$ corelist Text::Soundex

Text::Soundex  was first released with perl 5

$ corelist Pod::InputObjects

Pod::InputObjects  was first released with perl 5.006

$ corelist Env

Env  was first released with perl 5

$ corelist CGI::Pretty

CGI::Pretty  was first released with perl 5.006

Others like the ones below were recently added in a policy coherent to
the criteria mentioned by Schwern: namely, they are dependencies to
modules that help build the core or other extension libraries
(CPANPLUS, Module::Build, etc.)

$ corelist Module::Loaded Archive::Tar

Module::Loaded  was first released with perl 5.009004

Archive::Tar  was first released with perl 5.009003

Yves explained about Tie::Hash::NamedCapture.

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