To make a minimal perl distribution, it's useful to look at
F<t/lib/commonsense.t>.
-=head2 Move dual-life pod/*.PL into ext
-
-Nearly all the dual-life modules have been moved to F<ext>. However, we
-still need to move F<pod/*.PL> into their respective directories
-in F<ext/>. They're referenced by (at least) C<plextract> in F<Makefile.SH>
-and C<utils> in F<win32/Makefile> and F<win32/makefile.ml>, and listed
-explicitly in F<win32/pod.mak>, F<vms/descrip_mms.template> and F<utils.lst>
-
=head2 POSIX memory footprint
Ilya observed that use POSIX; eats memory like there's no tomorrow, and at
Fix (or rewrite) the implementation of the C</(?{...})/> closures.
-=head2 A re-entrant regexp engine
-
-This will allow the use of a regex from inside (?{ }), (??{ }) and
-(?(?{ })|) constructs.
-
=head2 Add class set operations to regexp engine
Apparently these are quite useful. Anyway, Jeffery Friedl wants them.