maxiPerl is a Perl distribution based on the core Perl distribution adding several CPAN modules and testing them together. This is not a released version yet, but you can take a look at what it might look like one day.
As Devel::Cover is the first CPAN module included in the build the side effect is that the build can also easily provide coverage report for each module. The results of which can be found here: CPAN module coverage
The Subversion repository can be find here with the latest README file and the module.list.
If you'd like to take a look at the resulting distro you can find the full package at maxiperl-5.8.6-5 (16209597 bytes) which of course is large as it includes perl-5.8.6, a bunch of CPAN modules and my extra files.
If you'd like to get the extra files only in a much smaller package: maxiperl-5.8.6-5-tools (8479 bytes)
The installation of Perl then looks like this: ./Configure ... make make test ./perl CPAN/addcpan.pl --build make install ./perl CPAN/addcpan.pl --install
The perl-dist mailing list was
designated to discuss issues with various sized perl distributions. It can also be used to
discuss issues related to maxiPerl. So if you are interested to discuss this, please join that
mailing list.
There was also a discussion on PerlMonks regarding
the various sized distros and what should be included.
In this thread on the perl5 porters mailing
list we started to discuss the merits of such larger perl distribution.
Contact Gabor Szabo, Last Update: 2005, Jaunary 9