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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
October 7, 2003 03:35
Subject:
Re: Hidden dependencies?
Message ID:
3F8296B3.40200@sun.com
Nicholas Clark wrote:

> Both Hugo and I would like to see a way of splitting perl down,
> particularly "as small as possible"
> (but still able to fetch and build everything else.
>  You can go 1 smaller, and rely on an OS package manager to do the fetch bit)
> 
> There's a list about this but little is happening:
> 
> http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-dist
> 
> Most importantly Jos and myself actually volunteered to do something.
> (with witnesses. How stupid can you get?)
> So we should get somewhere at some point.

I'm going to be doing this again for Solaris 10 shortly.  I basically have a 
space budget I can't exceed.  I'm thinking unicode will probably be the 
first think I chop.

-- 
Alan Burlison
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