Surely, at bare minimum, there must be something included in core to allow things that are not in core to be easily installed, the equivalent of what CPAN.pm is for Perl5 (hopefully even better, and
I believe that's the current plan--the core will include CPAN, LWP, and not much else.
hopefully without dependencies on external non-Perl things like gcc).
Don't think it'll be possible for modules that have C components, although Parrot's Native Call Interface ought to make a lot of XS uses obsolete. (With NCI, Parrot provides opcodes to load a shared library, then retrieve functions from it and treat them like normal Parrot subs--all without writing any C. That includes converting arguments and return values from Parrot types to C types.)
Oh, and here's me resisting the urge to suggest that use ought to automatically install from the CPAN anything that isn't present, as a core behavior right out of the box.
Security nightmare.
-- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker
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