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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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