On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> rkitover wrote:
> > Hi Gerrit,
> >
> > Thanks so much for testing my package! What a mess :)
>
> Gerrit,
>
> Now that it seems we'll be providing perl module packages, I think we
> should come up with some sort of naming standard for consistency. For
> example, Red Hat prefixes their perl packages with "perl-" and generally
> uses the same case as is found on CPAN. So if we were to adopt this
> route, this package would be perl-libwin32-0.191-1.
Agreed, FWIW.
> Also, may I suggest we make a "release" subdir especially for perl
> modules on the mirrors (like XFree86)? This way we can keep the perl
> modules neatly tucked away in their own subdir hierarchy, rather then
> cluttering up the already growing release TLD. Just a thought...
We already have one - it's called 'release/perl'. Why not simply put any
perl modules as a subdirectory of that? And leave the main perl package
in that directory?
> Some other food for thought:
>
> 1) Man pages are good, especially since they can be indexed and keyed.
> Have builders use make manifypods prior to make install.
Check (i.e., agreed).
> 2) Try not to clobber the perllocal.pod, but rather come up with a way
> to update it (perhaps regenerate it from a pool of fragments?).
Mmm, something akin to _update_info_dir?
> 3) Make a vendorinstalldir for Cygwin, to keep our mods separate from
> user's local mods, but provide a stable api for dependencies like
> mod-perl or what-not.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicholas
Ok, this one's over my head, I'll let you Perl gurus discuss it.
Igor
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