On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:45:55 -0400, "Clayton O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why off-list? this is a good reaction. > On 7/14/06, H.Merijn Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Look at the list of modules I include in my perl distributions for HP-UX at > > http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/#Perl and you might get an idea of what > > I think are useful modules that my work more effective. Not quite like yours > > is it? > > I think a core difference between your list and Chromatic's is that > yours would be part of the standard library in a lot of languages, > whereas Chromatic seems to be aiming more for things that would be > part of the language. Not to disparage your list, but I think his is > oriented more towards higher level abstractions, whereas yours is more > task oriented. Probably correct. > Because of that, I don't really see the dichotomy as strongly as you. > I think you can argue over which inside out object module to use, but > that's a different sort of argument than whether or not XPath or SOAP > support should be included in core, or some PerlPlus bundle. At least > it seems that way to me. IMHO none of those should be included in the core at all. It should be made easier to *add* them after the core is installed. Either by a website or a GUI or whatever. Select the box "OO programming" choose "functionality", tick all that apply, and hit [Install]. If that script/site calls 'curl ...' or 'perl -MCPAN ...' or "frobnicator2 ...' is not of any interrest to me at this point. If I'm not mistaken, there has been a lot of effort to enable inside-out objects in perl-5.9 from the core side of view. So it is being appreciated that people want it. Not that I am likely to ever use it, but that is not being discussed here. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
