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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:34:44PM +0100, Neil Bowers wrote: > There are at least 2 distributions that are in core and that define 'cuckoo packages': packages that don't have their own .pm, but are defined in another. > For example Test-Simple contains Test::Builder::Tester::Tie which is defined in Test::Builder::Tester, and Pod-Parser defines 9 such packages. See: > > https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Simple > https://metacpan.org/release/Pod-Parser > > For these dists, the regular modules are listed recognised as being core in Module::CoreList, but the cuckoo packages aren't. > Obviously there are additional hoops I could jump through, to identify these cases, but I think that Module::CoreList should include the cuckoo packages as well, so that things 'match up'. > > Before I put the time in, if I identified all such dists and modules, and patched Module::CoreList, I want to check whether such a patch would in principle be accepted? I don't think that anyone responded to this, did they? It seems sensible. But I think that BinGOs is one with the best idea of where any gotchas might be with Module::CoreList Nicholas ClarkThread Previous