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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:39:15PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Steffen Mueller wrote: > > > Careful! The directory structure reflects maintenance preference of the > > people involved. Until some time ago, we had PathTools (File::Spec, Cwd, > > ...) in there, for example. There's also File::Temp, Getopt stuff, etc. > > Even if you ignore all the tools that are required for building other > > modules, this is REALLY basic stuff. > > And Socket is now in cpan/ In particular, one of our current goals is to move as many things as possible out into cpan/, to ease the development burden on the core developers. This means that there will likely continue to be more cases like this in the future. The existence of files under cpan/ really shouldn't be taken to mean anything other than "this module is maintained primarily on CPAN", which can be true even for modules that most people would consider to be important to the core. -doyThread Previous | Thread Next