>>>>> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> A couple of comments on this thread: David> 1) Fred Sanchez wrote a revised darwin.sh for perl in the fall, which was David> accepted into the perl tree. I believe that it essentially implements David> what Chris did. We should follow it. (Links to the document were in my David> previous post.) David> 2) By convention, the user-modifiable portion of the Fink tree David> is /sw/etc. So I think we should create /sw/etc/perl/5.6.0 and David> /sw/etc/perl/5.8.0 and symlink them back into the /sw/lib/perl David> trees that we are making. That way perl finds them, but users David> only write to /sw/etc. Ick. Ick. ick ick. If you want to do it "the perl way", /sw/lib/perl5/$version/ is for core libraries, and /sw/lib/perl5/site_perl/$version/ is for after-core add-ons. $version is 5.6.0 or 5.8.0 right now. Don't put anything in /sw/etc/. Ick. These aren't config files. These are libraries, installed using the normal means. People won't be *editing* these, which is what I think of when I see /*/etc/. David> 3) We are going to need separate Fink packages for 5.6 perl modules and David> 5.8 perl modules. We are going to need a way to build a 5.6 perl module David> when 5.8 is installed, and vice versa. Seems to me that we'll probably David> have binaries called /sw/bin/perl56 and /sw/bin/perl58, and that those David> will be called by name when the perl module is compiled. (So these David> packages may have "BuildDepends: perl56" or "BuildDepends: perl58".) Again, the convention for this is that /sw/bin/perl should link to the "active" perl. If anything is specific on a version number, then they can link directly to /sw/bin/perl5.8.0 or /sw/bin/perl5.6.0 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
