On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Gabor Szabo <szab...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Richard Hainsworth > <rnhainswo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> However, for someone new to the Perl6 world, there needs to be some form of >> recommendation about useful "first" modules. > > Agree, but would go further: > > Someone new to Perl 6 should not need to make any decision regarding > modules and should not need to install anything else for the common > tasks. What are common tasks changes with time. These days accessing > SQLite, handling JSON, YAML, INI files, and even XML falls in that > place. Even simple web application development falls in that category.
This decision can be outsourced to the community (as this thread shows). I think a bundle of this nature would be more useful than Task::Star (which had a basically random collection) or Task::Popular (which IMO is random on another axis) > IMHO if the distribution of Perl 6 (I guess I mean Rakudo Start) does > not come with such capabilities then it won't be able to compete with > languages such as PHP or Python because of > 1) Analysis paralyzes > 2) Lack of knowledge how to install > 3) Lack of rights (technical or legal) Note, Rakudo::Star is not intended to be "the" distribution. (as the .vip discussion I think highlights) Note that from a business standpoint, the bundling isn't helpful (along with your legal rights question on #3); Each of these pieces of software has its own licensing considerations, and is going to have to be reviewed to insure that it can be used on a particular project/by a particular team. (The bundling is much more relevant for students/personal development) I think a more helpful approach is to move on the CPAN approach and then use existing tools for recommendations/ratings, etc. Finally, as I recall, Perl 6 made a deliberate decision not to bundle as much in core as Perl 5, and to push out these decisions about what is a useful group of modules to the community anyway - which I am glad to see is happening here. > Gabor > http://perl6maven.com/ -- Will "Coke" Coleda
