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• Compiler optional? (Score:2)

  by bart (450)

  Could you please please please make the download of the compiler optional. I don't wish to download the same multi-megabyte compiler package again and again for every little upgrade of this Perl distro.
  • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:1)

    by Alias (5735)

    The entire mandate of this distribution is that it comes with a compiler built in by default.
    
    If you do not want a compiler in your Perl distribution, ActiveState makes an excellent Win32 Perl distribution that can meet your needs.
    
    Further, as dagolden mentions, "each little release" only applies during alpha, and I'm afraid we're going with simplicity here.
    
    Once we get to production releases, we expect there to only be one release per Perl release. So it adds 10meg of extra download per 6 months.
    
    I don't see a
    • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:2)

      by bart (450)

      The entire mandate of this distribution is that it comes with a compiler built in by default.The entire mandate of this distribution is that it comes with a compiler built in by default.

      I am talking about upgrades... You're not suggesting people should upgrade to ActivePerl, are you?

      I don't see an obvious way to do what you want

      Well, you could have a package with compiler, and the same package but without compiler, for the people who already have the latter.
      • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:2)

        by nicholas (3034) <nwc10+useperl@colon.colondot.net> on 2006.07.12 15:43 (#48750) Homepage Journal

        Put a current release tarball (unpacked?) on an rsync server, and let rsync do its magic? Clearly this is only easy if someone has a suitable rsync server already set up.

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        • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:1)

          by kwilliams (1467)

          Yeah, you could do this with just a regular tarball (doesn't need to be unpacked). The sequential nature of the tar format should let rsync do its thing fine.
          
            -Ken
          
          • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:1)

            by audreyt (6654)

            You can even use gzip 1.3.5 [sourceforge.net] with the --rsyncable flag, which allows rsync over the entire .tar.gz file.
            • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:1)

              by audreyt (6654)

              Here's maybe a better [utah.edu] link.
              • Re:Compiler optional? (Score:1)

                by audreyt (6654)

                The link above would need gzip-rsyncable.diff [samba.org]; the link from sf.net seems to have it pre-applied.