To paraphrase, you would support dropping about half the modules in the core in 5.10 (or .12 or whatever). That list of modules would probably include (if I'm reading you right):
- The CGI::, HTML::, LWP::, Net::, URI::, and HTTP:: namespaces
- The Class:: namespace
- The File:: and IPC:: namespaces (including File::Spec and File::Basename)
- List::Util and Scalar::Util
- The Math:: namespace
- The Memoize:: namespace
- All the DBMs and DB_File
- Search::Dict
- The Text:: namespace
- The Win32 module
- WWW::RobotsRules (and friends)
I'm in complete agreement with your three criteria, but I don't think most people involved in this debate realize not only what's in the core, but also what they would consider to be "core".
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