[MPlayer-dev-eng] More On Automatic Codec Downloader

[daniel carter]

Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi team,
>  The reason I chose Perl and LWP is that, per my understanding, LWP
> is a standard part of the Perl distribution (apparently with v5.6.0 and
> up, at least), so there's a good chance that the necessary components
> would already be on a user's system without having to install more stuff
> first. This might (if you can stomach the prospect) help new users with
> their initial out-of-the-box experience


Um, but the user would have to install Perl first, and perl is huge!

Allot of people would have it installed already, but i'd guess a fair 
portion wouldn't.  I always remove perl when doing a custom install.