First, little bit of background: I was working on cpan-common-index branch for cpanm and the branch adds CPAN::Common::Index and its all subdeps, which might make fatpacking on 5.8 difficult because of the amount of its non-core dependencies, some of which are dual XS/PP. To clarify: it’s not impossible, but just harder and more stuff to add to be able to bootstrap on 5.8. Also, at this point I’d
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