A minimal Perl core is considered by many to have what's needed to run CPAN and the cpan script. One could try to figure out the requirements of that.

A really bare-bones Perl only needs what is necessary for the core pragmas, handling of @INC, DynaLoader for XS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, and so forth. If you don't mind losing the functionality of CPAN.pm you can do away with a few more modules.

Then there's miniperl which doesn't even handle dynamic loading for XS, but which can convert XS to C to be compiled and linked into perl. I'd call miniperl just a bit less than barebones Perl. It's used in the build process of the perl executable. Looking at the compilation or even cross-compilation process to build perl could be a good way to determine which modules are really needed to get to a certain point you consider complete.

In reply to Re: Perl::Minimal -- the good, bad, and the ugly... by mr_mischief
in thread Perl::Minimal -- the good, bad, and the ugly... by taint

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