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On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:09:54AM -0400, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> 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"?
>
I'd say, drop those when it becames a hassle to keep. But as long as
they're keep passing tests (or can be made to pass them without much
fuss), I don't see a reason to drop them. (I think this is similar to
what Rjbs suggested).
Abigail
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