On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:03:30AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 05:15:32AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > It looks like rather than declaring Data::Dumper optional and altering all > > the tests to handle that it would be better to smarten up Data::Dumper's > > build process so it can do a pure-Perl build. Then it will always be > > available. > > I don't like this. It goes against the grain of attempting to provide a > minimal perl install. If you can't test a minimal build because some > test scripts can't find a module you de-configured, how do you know that it > is good?
This is downright silly. This is not an abstract argument about what should and should not be in the core. This is Data::Dumper. A 36k, 500 line pure Perl module that's been in the core since 5.5.0. Six years! Its not necessary that it be "built" at all, if you don't want the XS version just copy Dumper.pm into lib! This is a config issue to be fixed, not a debate about what a minimal Perl consists of. I've got to be able to rely on *something* being there. What's next? Cwd? File::Spec? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ My enormous capacity for love is being WASTED on YOU guys -- http://www.angryflower.com/497day.gif
