pod/persource.pod describes the 'ext/' directory in the Perl 5 distribution thus: "This directory contains XS-using modules which are only released as part of the core." Excerpting some discussion on #p5p: 08:41 rafl the XS bit for ext/ is also wrong, fwiw ... 08:49 kid51 By my count, there are 35 subdirectories under ext/, but only 28 with .xs 08:50 vincent pure-perl non-dual-lifed modules that are not needed to build other extensions can be put in ext/ as well 08:54 kid51 Errno FileCache IPC-Open3 Pod-Functions Pod-Html Tie-Memoize Win32CORE 08:54 kid51 those are the subdirs of ext/ without .xs 1. How can we more precisely describe what distributions should go under 'ext/' (and, by implication, lib/, dist/ and cpan/)? 2. Are there any distributions currently under 'ext/' which should not be there? Where they should go? Thank you very much. Jim Keenan