Bug#508876: Bug#508696: Module::CoreList does not list ExtUtils::Miniperl as included with 5.10.0

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Niko Tyni, Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:32:11PM +0200 |=-
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:37:18AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > It obviously was shipped with 5.10.0, so Module::CoreList is wrong
> > about that.
> 
> Hm, I now see it wasn't really shipped with 5.10.0: it's a generated file
> and not present in the orig.tar.gz. It's listed in upstream .gitignore, 
> which is why I missed that.
> 
> Given this, it's not clear to me if it should be in Module::CoreList
> or not.  Possibly the entries up to 5.9.5 were the bug here.
> I'll check this on the perl5-porters list.

Yes, the Miniperl.pm file is auto-generated, but this doesn't change 
the fact it is shipped as part of core Perl.

I assume that the whole purpose of CoreList is to say whether a given 
module is to be found in the core Perl distribution or is it to be 
found on CPAN or somewhere else. For this kind of classification, 
Miniperl is a "core" module and should be reported.

Miniperl is the only module present in /usr/{share,lib}/perl/5.10.0 
that is not listed by CoreList.

> The list is updated for each release by running Porting/corelist.pl in
> the Perl source tree.

Perhaps this is why Miniperl is missing -- corelist.pl is run before 
Miniperl.pm is generated (and should be run after that).

Hopefully p5p would comment (and also agree :)) soon.

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