Rafael Garcia-Suarez said on 01 December 2004 18:45 > Orton, Yves wrote: > > > > Im just curious about this. Is there a good reason why the core Win32 > > modules are NOT considered to be Core perl in general? Are there any other > > OS'es where core perl doesn't deploy with what most users of that os would > > consider to be standard modules? > > You should ask Sarathy, he made most of those decisions regarding Win32 > packaging (see libwin32 on CPAN.) > > The only core Win32 module is, so far, Win32 itself. > > Moreover I'm not very inclined to add modules in the core.
Well, 5.6 is long gone. And frankly so even is the company that Sarathy worked for, at least they are if you want to be picky about it. "Activestate a division of Sophos" is a different beast to "Activestate, home of the 5.6 Pumpking". I mean at what point will p5p stop relying on AS to maintain this code? When they issue a formal stop support notice? Consider that libwin32 hasn't been updated on CPAN since 08 Jul 2002 (libwin32-0.191). I am sympathetic to the point about not wanting to add a whole host of modules to the core, especially if they are specific to only one OS, but IMO it seems that libwin32 should at least be a p5p maintained package. Cheers, Yves
