On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> wrote: >> There are two kinds of fool. One says, >> “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, >> “This is new, and therefore better.” > > That put aside sticking with an older solution may be preferable due to the > better adoption ratios mentioned by David and others, but to quote George > Bernard Show: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the > unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore > all progress depends on the unreasonable man.". ( > http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw ).
Of the many places I choose to be unreasonable for the sake of progress, squeezing out a little bit more size reduction in tar balls is not where I'm going be spending my energies. C.f. http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1148/bootstrapping-cpan-pm-using-httplite/ as well as the abbreviated auto CPAN config and the CPAN Mirror auto-selection in the current development series of CPAN.pm. -- David
