In the last episode (May 01), Mirar @ Pike developers forum said:
My idea of a point would be to make it possible to have different release cycles of modules and the main pike, not to make the distribution smaller.
How about something like GCC's distribution, where you have
Pike-7.6.tar.gz Pike-core-7.6.tar.gz Pike-modules-7.6.tar.gz
, where the first file is everything, the second would be just enough to build pike itself, and the third is the rest of the modules?