Perl has always been in the bundle - at least as long as I've been using it. I used to use it as an easy way to get a Perl installation on windows that didn't n

Perl has always been in the bundle - at least as long as I've been using it. I used to use it as an easy way to get a Perl installation on windows that didn't need to use the registry. I remember one of the Apache Friends guys helping me by specifically creating a bash script to trim down the distribution to fit on a 100Mb zip disk (probably back in the early 2000s) so that I could have a portable web dev environment that I could use on the computers at my University. I've always had fond memories of ApacheFriends since that time.