As the author of Lingua::Stem I have to correct this: Lingua::Stem is a pure Perl module collection. That is in fact probably the single largest practical difference between it and Lingua::Stem::Snowball (which is entirely XS based). While Lingua::Stem uses Lingua::Stem::Snowball::Da, Lingua::Stem::Snowball::No and Lingua::Stem::Snowball::Se as 'plugin' components - those modules are standalone pure Perl items that are completely independant of the main Lingua::Stem::Snowball distribution even though they share Lingua::Stem::Snowball's namespace.

As to the complaint that Lingua::Stem installs unwanted European stemmers, I think that is a matter of perspective: Some Europeans might complain that it installs an unwanted English stemmer ;).

Distributions like Lingua::Stem and Lingua::Stem::Snowball have multiple user bases by design. They are intended to create standards for implementing the type of module so that there are not dozens of different APIs and namespaces for modules that all basically do the same thing for slightly different audiences. Other than using a small amount of extra disk space, that there are features you don't need for your particular use isn't really an issue as long as their presence doesn't interfere with your use.

In reply to Re^2: HTML::Index module -- what's the story? by snowhare
in thread HTML::Index module -- what's the story? by Cody Pendant

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