Craig A. Berry wrote:
On Jun 10, 2009, at 7:29 PM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
There is considerable interest currently in removing extensions from the
core and reluctance to add them. This derives from somewhat of a binge
in adding new extensions in recent years that add to the maintenance
burden of the core developers at a time when the core developers have
become spread rather thin. The basic criteria now are that to be in
core an extension should be essential for building Perl and/or
installing other extensions. Arguably VMS::Feature and VMS::Logical
could meet these criteria since they expose aspects of the environment
that are of interest when building things. But as far as anyone who
would have any say in incorporating them is concerned, they don't exist
because they are not on CPAN. Get them on CPAN and other possibilities
arise, though probably not before Perl 5.12.0.
If we can get them into CPAN, would it be acceptable to make them a
requirement for other CPAN modules to use them just on the VMS platform?
Regards,
-John
wb8...@qsl.net
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