DBI and various DBD modules have never been core, and probably never will, simply because there's no real benefit to it. It's much work to maintain many core modules, so the plan is to actually remove everything from core that's not needed to run perl, or install other modules.

The philosophy is more that a plain core perl isn't all that useful for many tasks, so it should be distributed with helpful modules from CPAN. So the distributors have a choice, and many make use of that choice (for example the last time I used ActiveState Perl, it came with non-core modules installed by default).

Or to put it differently - there's no good reason to connect default installation with core (where core = "maintained by p5p in the perl repository")

In reply to Re^3: PHP over perl by moritz
in thread PHP over perl by targetsmart

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