Steve Hay wrote: > If IPC::Open3 does work then I guess CPANPLUS should use it, and we > don't need IPC::Run in the core. > > If not then either someone needs to look at Nicholas' suggestions for > improving pipes on Win32 so that IPC::Run's requirement for Win32:: > modules can be avoided, or failing that including Archive::Tar sounds > like the best solution to me, although Rafael said previously that he > wasn't happy about that -- > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2005-01/msg00503.html.
Well, my opinion is to maximise portability first, and secondly minimize size. The two being not necessarily incompatible.
