Re: Draft manifest

[email protected] (Mark Murray) Mon, 06 May 2002 09:45:31 +0100
Newsgroups perl.dist
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Jarkko Hietaniemi:
> # > I would imagine that we'd also want CPAN.pm (or CPANPLUS.pm), at 
> # > least.
> # 
> # Which means at the very least Socket and MakeMaker.
> 
> I can understand MakeMaker, but why Socket?  We can use external
> programs to do the heavy work.  Even Windows 95 has a command-line FTP
> program.

MakeMaker is a heavyweight, and is only needed by those intending to
build modules. For "base" FreeBSD, this is overkill.

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