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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com> wrote: > > On 30 Jul 2014, at 16:09, Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> wrote: > > Time::Piece was an attempt in ["best practice"] > > > 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"? > > > So my updated hierarchy, given some of the comments yesterday: > > 1. Needed to install perl (Test::Harness) > 2. Considered part of the language (strict/warnings) > 3. Toolchain modules needed to bootstrap your installation (CPAN) > 4. Dependencies for any of the above (HTTP::Tiny) > 5. Modules for talking to your environment (Cwd, File::Spec*) All of the #5s that I can think of offhand are needed to build perl and run the test suite, so these are really part of #1.Thread Previous | Thread Next