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Postings from June 2006
Randy W. Sims wrote: > Adam Kennedy wrote: >> Carp... >> >> utf8 >> >> warnings >> >> A few others, but yes, it should look something like that >> >> Level 1 - Perl, strict, Carp, warnings, utf8, a few other small things >> >> Level 2 - Level 1 + whatever is required to have a working CPAN client >> >> Level 3 - Level 2 plus a large number of other common things... > > Is the layered approach sensible past "Level 2" as opposed to grouping > modules by task? Or should there be anything at all past Level 2? The > more sets, the more work to support them. But then, it seems to be much > more reassuring to some users, judging from other posts, to have a > "supported" set of modules. Indeed. That's part of the reason for the discussion at the hackfest, to come up with some idea of how we handle that. Certainly 1 and 2 are straight forward. But there's less clarity on what we might include beyond that. Something like Task::StrawberryPerl (which I've uploaded in advance of Strawberry Perl actually existing) may be one method for achieving that. Adam K