Re: Looking beyond 1.3: Kernalization andrequirements proposals.

["Adam Thompson" <..hidden..>]

One big caveat: the use of anything other than ActivePerl on Windows.
There's no deep, unavoidable reason that Perl+IIS can't be used under Windows - the mod_rewrite functionality can be done in other, almost as easy, ways.  For that matter, if 2.0 is a major rewrite, I'm of the opinion it should support multiple hosting paradigms: multiple web servers, multiple Perl-runners (CGI, FastCGI, mod_perl, PerlScript [under IIS]).
Database dependency is fine, it seems to me that anything reasonably current will have Pg8.4 by then.
But requiring a non-standard Perl interpreter under Windows would be much like saying you can only run this app under lighttpd on Linux - it instantly eliminates a large potential audience (including me).  Not because ActivePerl is the "best", just because it's the de facto standard.
-Adam