On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:20:02PM -0000, Lyle Hopkins wrote: > This to me sounds like some very good common sense. A WebServer bundle of > Perl would be perfect. Then you could include DBI, DBD's (namely ODBC and > MySQL), full CGI, Image::Size, SafeRun.pm (when it's ready) and all the very > useful modules a lot of web scripts want, and users have trouble getting web > admins to install. > > That way you can please everyone properly. > > Ben, you had the idea, I think you should start it as a new topic. I would > suspect a lot of support from all sides.
It's not actually a new idea, but it does need someone with time and enthusiasm to work on it. There's actually a mailing list for it already: http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-dist Nicholas Clark
