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  • While I understand the general pain to install Plagger, I should argue a little bit about that "Plagger dev team need to look to slim down the distro" statement.

    http://search.cpan.org/src/MIYAGAWA/Plagger-0.7.17/META.yml [cpan.org]

    Plagger's "requirement" modules are all generic, from Cache, DateTime and LWP to HTML, XML and URI fetch modules. They are all necessary to all kinds of data sources and output as well. Other "plugins" are all pure perl and you can just skip installing the dependencies, which are disabled by default anyway for most plugins.

    Believe me or not, I just replaced my work laptop with new MacBook a few weeks ago, and I installed Plagger and its dependencies with "notest" option of CPAN shell and by typing "n" (don't install) to most "recommended" dependencies, and it was so quick and easy, like done in 10 minutes with no failure at all.

    Besides that, good work on Perlanet. You can steal options and filters from Plagger :)

    • Plagger's "requirement" modules are all generic, from Cache, DateTime and LWP to HTML, XML and URI fetch modules. They are all necessary to all kinds of data sources and output as well.

      You're absolutely right (of course!) The vast majority of the pre-requisites are optional. I had forgotten that.

      I still think, however, that you're bundling too much stuff together. If I was bundling Plagger I'd create a core distribution that just read feeds, combined them and published new ones. I'd then relegate all

      • Right. Splitting the distro into separate piece of modules, or at least to bundles was the original idea.

        The only reason why we haven't done this was probably because we had never got to the point "yes we're done", and I just didn't want to see people uploading their random Plagger plugins to CPAN that will eventually be unmaintained, abandoned, out of sync with core, and in a poor quality code etc, etc.

        It doesn't take you a minute to name a few Catalyst modules that are "out-of-date" or "was a total mistak
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