RE: RFC 260 (v1) More modules

2000-09-21 Thread Garrett Goebel
From: Michael G Schwern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Doh! Don't read email for two days and look what happens. Its like going on vacation and leaving the iron on. Speaking of which, I just re-read my previous email, and I want apologize for contributing to the flamebait. Sorry. Hopefully

Re: RFC 260 (v1) More modules

2000-09-21 Thread Tom Christiansen
I don't think that the documentation should be removed from the core distribution, BUT I do think that there should be an "easter egg" that allows people to build a Perl distribution without documentation or whatever else they choose. There have been times that I've wanted/needed to build a

Re: RFC 260 (v1) More modules

2000-09-21 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Michael G Schwern wrote: Sounds like a seperate RFC. Like I said, I want to reverse some of the philosophies that have kept things like LWP out of the core for so long. The differing timescales of development by the myriad different authors involved has always been one

Re: RFC 260 (v1) More modules

2000-09-21 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:23:25PM +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: On 19 Sep 2000 19:41:20 -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: Perl should come distributed with more modules. I know of people/sites where installing the whole lot of Perl just to run a tiny script, is not acceptable as an option.