Re: Perl5 update

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%gmail.com@localhost>]

Am 05.06.2014 um 17:40 schrieb David Holland 
<dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:50:14AM +0200, Edgar Fu? wrote:
>>> If I have buitin perl 5.14
>> 
>> Ah, OK, I forgot about built-in Perls.
>> You will need multiple versions of the large pre-compiled table then, 
>> one for every major release of Perl. Then choose the one apropriate for 
>> your built-in Perl.
> 
> For best results, the table should be stuffed in the perl binary
> package. Then it will all work regardless of what perl you happen to
> have installed.

I assume you're talking about Module::CoreList. Yes, there is a bundled
one since 5.8.9 and 5.9.2.

> (Can this info be extracted automatically from a perl install? Because
> then builtin perls can provide it on the fly.)

Not as easy as the idea would require. But I'm interested to see the
patch and see how good it performs.

Best regards
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Jens Rehsack
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