On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:10 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun Mar 16 05:00:30 2008, bernhard wrote: > > > > > I'm reopening this ticket, as there are still external Perl 5 modules > > in lib/Digest, lib/File, lib/IO, lib/Pod. > > > > The Perl::Critic policies in lib/Perl/Critic/Policy seem to be > > Parrot-specific. > > Barney, > > I understood the point of the ticket to be to get rid of those Perl 5 > modules which were part of the Perl 5 core distribution (at least as of > our minimum required version, 5.8.0). So those modules that I > eliminated -- e.g., Test::Builder, Test::More, Class::Struct -- were > those that anyone with a typical Perl 5.8 would already have. > > Those that remain -- e.g., File::Which, IO::CaptureOutput -- are > *non-core*. They are generally small enough that we include them in the > Parrot distribution as a convenience to our users. > > If my understanding is correct, then we can re-close the ticket.
The original ticket was to get *all* modules that were not parrot-specific out of core. I had just pointed out that many of these were an easy win. Let's leave the ticket open for now. -- Will "Coke" Coleda
