On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Daniel Stillwaggon wrote:
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 09:20 US/Pacific, Dan Sugalski wrote:A way to do packaging would be good, though there are licensing issues there that you don't have to deal with when using system-installed code.Would the easiest solution be to come up with a list of "basic" perl modules and a collective petition to Apple for inclusion with the system? I don't imagine that there would be much resistance to a unified plea for inclusion of x given packages (if the number were reasonable, of course). That might help developers know what to expect on a system...
I don't think that's the way to go. It doesn't solve the problem, since we don't want to have to wait (potentially years) for Apple to move on things. And it means that Apple's "core perl modules" would be different from what they are on other systems, that's a headache I don't want to deal with. And Apple can't solve the licensing issue any better than the rest of us can.
The perl core already fills this role of letting developers know what to expect on a system.
-Ken
