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On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote: > To the extent that certain modules are particularly well-suited for > their tasks, I would like to think that those will become part of a > packagers "standard" distribution. E.g. Debian/Ubuntu installing > certain perl modules by default, or ActiveState or Strawberry > likewise. I'd like the same but the reality seems to work at least partially against what we want. Many downstream distributions break up what p5p releases and puts it into separate packages so for example a default Ubuntu installation does not have perldoc. Some other distribution I think did not even have CPAN.pm. From that point I cannot really tell anyone what they can expect to be installed as "standard". Hence I wrote somewhere that there is no standard Perl distribution any more. The best thing I can recommend now is to learn how to install stuff using the packaging system of the OS distribution (so at least you'll have the perl toolchain) and how to install from CPAN. Then package any code as CPAN package even if distributed only internally. But I don't have to tell this here on p5p... GaborThread Previous | Thread Next