Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
Actually, I think we should be like Perl here. There is a list of
standard modules that comes with the base Perl distro, and then there
are addons, such as you find on CPAN. File::Find is an example of a
standard module, DBD::Pg is an example of an addon.
Actually, chromatic, Allison, etc. regard the Standard Modules as a
mistake and are talking about moving away from having any for Perl 6.
On the other hand, their main reason for doing this (the issues with
maintaining the included version and the CPAN version separately)
wouldn't apply to us.
I agree they have too many. I think moving to none would be a mistake,
though. Would they even drop things like Dynaloader or
ExtUtils::MakeMaker? That would be crazy, IMNSHO. I think there's a
sweet spot here and we are not very far away from it in the number of
things we currently ship.
On the third hand, having "all modules equal, just some recommended"
approach woudl make it far easier to drop a module which went
unmaintained, e.g. CUBE. But some people may regard this as a
misfeature.
I would happily push cube out of the nest now :-)
cheers
andrew
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