On 06/02/10 09:28, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Message below is trimmed, but the summary is:
pacpan (CPAN wrapper for pacman packages) has been updated with gusto.
There is a request to include using pacpan as part of the official
guidelines for packaging perl apps for Arch. I think this is a good
idea, but it leaves me wondering what we should do with the tool
itself - should we be hosting it in the git repos?
What do you guys think?
I'm not sure about the idea.
From what I understand, Perl comes in CPAN "distributions", which
contain some modules. We take a "distribution" and make a package.
This script fills out a provides array with all modules that are part of
the package and makes the dependencies be these modules. That may be
technically more correct, but the sacrifice is a lot of complexity that
I am not sure is really needed.
How often do modules swap from one "distribution" to another?
Robustness to that is the only advantage I see here. I might be missing
something...
Saying that, in total perl modules on my system are what is needed for
SDL_perl (yay frozen bubble!) and that is the limit of the perl
packaging I have to deal with.
Allan
