> Also moving more commonly used modules into core perl, making the core > perl experience more usable would improve the lot of many, many, many > a perl developer who is limited by policy that they cannot form > dependencies on modules that arent in core. A group that I think is > much larger and IMO much more important than the "minimal core" types > realize. IMO CORE should not be bloated by some more Win32 modules. Those who can not build CPAN modules will use perpared distributions, anyways, so they even do not notice is it CORE or CPAN And nothing stops you when building your distribution to add extra modules to build process, so CORE in your personal case will be larger BR, Vadim.