Re: Extensions User Design

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> I agree they have too many. I think moving to none would be a
>> mistake, though. Would they even drop things like Dynaloader or
>> ExtUtils::MakeMaker? That would be crazy, IMNSHO. I think there's a
>> sweet spot here and we are not very far away from it in the number of
>> things we currently ship.
>
> They want to drop everything except for tools to download, build,
> test, and install other modules. That's the limitation.
>
>

Well, I think in our case that would be going too far. I think there is
a very good case for keeping a few key extensions in core both as
exemplars and to make it easy to validate the extension mechanism
itself. There have been suggestions in the past about throwing a bunch
of things overboard, sometimes out of a passion for neatness more than
anything else ISTM, but there have been good arguments against as well,
particularly in the case of the PLs, which are tied so closely to the
backend.

cheers

andrew