perl-core

How are Perl's core libraries managed?

久未见 提交于 2019-12-04 16:17:42
问题 From my understanding Perl traditionally has only included core functionality, and people install additional libraries to do all sorts of useful (and sometimes very basic) things. But at some point there came to be "core libraries" which are shipped with Perl by default – so you can use these libraries without installing them. Coming from Python I'm curious how this is managed. Specifically: How are libraries chosen? Do the libraries still have their own version numbers and release schedules?

How are Perl's core libraries managed?

﹥>﹥吖頭↗ 提交于 2019-12-03 10:17:18
From my understanding Perl traditionally has only included core functionality, and people install additional libraries to do all sorts of useful (and sometimes very basic) things. But at some point there came to be "core libraries" which are shipped with Perl by default – so you can use these libraries without installing them. Coming from Python I'm curious how this is managed. Specifically: How are libraries chosen? Do the libraries still have their own version numbers and release schedules? What kind of backward-compatibility guarantees do you have when using these libraries? Is it common to