ISO: History of this effort?

Archive:
  http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl-sdk/

Problems:
 - a lot of sites only install the standard distribution, meaning that
   lots of good modules go unused or are installed redundantly
 - CPAN isn't quality controlled, so admins don't know which are the
   good modules to install

Solution:
 - prepare a bundle of good and useful modules that admins can install
   if they want a full installation of Perl (the SDK)
 - the current standard distribution stays as a minimal install of
   Perl

Issues I haven't mentioned include binary distributions, versioning of
modules, and licensing issues.

My gut feeling is that the only thing that can go from the current
standard distribution is the .pl files.  Once we've shipped something,
it has to be seriously broken before we can consider removing it.
The SDK is a collection of high-quality wide-appeal CPAN modules.

Nat