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On Wednesday-201407-30, 5:26, Neil Bowers wrote:
> 1. Needed to install perl. Eg various Test::*
> 2. Modules (especially pragmata) that are considered to be part of the language. strict/warnings/Carp
> 3. Toolchain modules needed to bootstrap your environment. Eg CPAN
> 4. Modules for talking to your environment / glue. Eg Cwd, Fcntl, File::Spec*
> 5. Codifies best practice in a way that's seen as a good thing ("everyone will/should want to use it"). autodie?
> 6. "Batteries included" - stuff that "everyone" does, so makes sense to come in the box. Eg Getopt::Std, HTTP::Tiny
Nice hierarchy. Yes, Time::Piece was an attempt in #5.
Though I'd like to squeeze in #4.5... "modules where tight bundling with
core is necessary/useful", like the B::
I'd be all for squeezing out all that do not pass #1-#4. But backward
compat: at what release would we set the "grandfather line"?
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