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On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:12:22PM -0700, horos wrote: > > Do you simply mean that LWP isn't standard? > > I mean its too heavyweight, and its not included with the distribution. > > With the perl distribution as it currently stands, I can't simply 'get up and > go'; I need to go off to CPAN and fetch a copy of LWP via going through all of > the hoops of figuring out where certain executables are. That's one of the things I like about the python distribution: it comes with all the modules I'm likely to use. It's got most (if not all) of the major protocols covered. (The python community calls this the "batteries included" philosophy and I think perl should do the same where possible) If the python community were to come up with a CPAN-alike, writing the equivalent CPyAN.py would be simple (relatively) because httplib and ftlib are part of the distribution. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff duff@cbi.tamucc.edu