The update of perl on to 5.14 moved some perl modules to a new perl_vendor
package which is not installed by default. The announcement I found stated
that perl_vendor is modules "which are mainly required to build and test and
report test results of other CPAN modules."
I find that the XML::Parser module (at least) has been moved. I've been using
this module for years to parse XML output for a set of Subversion tools. I had
a couple hours of digging today to figure out why a coworker started getting
errors after updating Cygwin, then figuring out the new package.
As an occasional user of perl I would much prefer that the maximum number of
packages be included in the distribution (since disk space and bandwidth are
constantly becoming cheaper) than to have to spend time figuring out why
something can't be found.
Thomas Wicklund
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