Slash Boxes  All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
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all common and useful things in perl distribution. The default
really matters. Include LWP in the default distibution, include
an XML parser in the default distribution, include DBI and most
popular DBD functionality. Ask users what they use most commonly
and include it. No, it really doesn't work to tell anybody that
you can get it from CPAN. IF there is no builtin XML support,
people simply think that perl doesn't have XML support. If perl
doesn't come with Mailtools by default, perl doesn't support
email, etc.      What happens is that majority of the users are
located on virtual hosting servers. Each server probably host
400-500 domains/users. Well lets consider CGI users for a
second. I am pretty sure these correspond to a big percentage.
The admin usually installs (compiles) the default perl and that
is it. They don't want to touch it just in case if it breaks
something else.