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

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 07:33:13AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 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.

Is this just aesthetics, or are you actually using ExtUtils::Miniperl
for something?

I see it was removed from the CPAN side in 2002
(ExtUtils-MakeMaker-5.50_01) with the rationale that it's not useful to
anyone outside the Perl core.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org