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organizing disorganization

From:
Joshua N Pritikin
Date:
July 24, 2000 10:50
Subject:
organizing disorganization
Message ID:
20000724135028.H3716@ghostwheel.wks.na.deuba.com
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:38:46AM -0700, horos@earth.he.net wrote:
> I think we need a method to make perl both really small and large at the same 
> time.   I'm open to suggestions, but I think that being big and monolithic 
> has a lot of drawbacks if perl is to spread.. Linux does it right, I think, by 
> allowing modules to be imported/exported from the kernel at will.

Oh!  Good analogy!  For example,

gen_perl perl5-compat > perl6c.tgz
gen_perl minimal-embedding > embed.tgz
gen_perl kitchen-sink > ksink.tgz

And these generated tarballs would look similar to the current perl5
tarball.

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