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On 30 July 2014 18:12, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo@pobox.com> wrote: > On Jul 30, 2014, at 11:28, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote: > > I personally think that we include things we shouldn't and dont include > things we should, and that the discussion cannot be simplified to "minimal > core is better". > > > That's easy for you to say, but when the criterion is "what people want", > either you take the intersection of everyone's sets of crucial libraries or > the union. The intersection approaches "minimal core" and the union > approaches "CPAN". > > If crucial libraries means "application libraries" then I agree that CPAN is the right place. I personally am more concerned with the every day stuff that you need to write an application library in the first place. Scalar::Util, List::Util, and various friends. On the other hand, having been in an environment that says "no CPAN modules" before I very sympathetic with a "batteries included" approach as well. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next