One problem I've had with Alien installs is control of the install process.
In most cases, as a PDL user I *don't* want unknown build-test-install processes to take place without my concurrence. I would far prefer a LibDetect::XXX first with an option of Alien::XXX install after that. Another thing that would be reassuring to me is the ability to find/view/remove any and all files installed by Alien::XXX. Just some things I've been bitten by with the original Alien approach... Cheers, Chris On 5/31/2015 16:27, Zakariyya Mughal wrote: > On 2015-05-30 at 14:42:46 +0100, Ed wrote: >> Chris, >> >> Great work! >> >> Now to press towards “splitting the iceberg”. I have a branch already that >> will make a PDL::Core release 2.010, which consists of the current Basic/ >> and Doc/. I am very keen to release PDL::Core 2.010, and then straight >> afterwards, PDL 2.010 which depends on PDL::Core 2.010, but still has all >> the other stuff still in. The reason is that a separated-out PDL::Core is >> the “minimum viable product” (in this case, minimal change to the existing >> distro), on which the next part (below) depends. >> >> Obviously, we also need to make individual CPAN releases of all the >> currently-incorporated non-core modules. Each will need: >> 1.. its own repo – I strongly suggest putting them on Github, set up with >> all the goodies that Zaki made happen for PDL, with Travis and the IRC >> notifications; > Yes, thanks to Christian Walde' (Mithaldu) for setting up the mirroring > and recently adding all the current SF repos to GitHub as well > (pdl-linearalgebra, pdl-io-hdf5, etc.). See <https://github.com/PDLPorters>. > >> 2.. the history moved over from the current PDL repo into that repo (I >> can do that once it’s set up, it’s straightforward enough); > I seem to recall this was also done with Inline and Inline::C when they > were split about a year ago? > >> 3.. sufficient build-system munging to make them work as a standalone >> distro (I can take care of that, it’s easy with EUMM) >> 4.. someone to “own” it (defaulting to Chris, but if someone else is >> motivated to take it on, that surely will make Chris’s life easier) >> 5.. an actual CPAN release by whomever is the “owner” >> If everyone is happy with this as a general concept, I can go ahead and make >> a list of all the individual new distros, and start executing points 2 & 3 >> for each of them. I’ll be asking Zaki for his expertise on point 1 for each. >> Zaki, will you feel like taking on release ownership of some of the distros? > Sure, I'll try my hand at a couple and then take what I learned from > those to apply them to the others. I was thinking that starting with > PDL::IO::GD might work nicely since that might involve also creating an > Alien::GD. > > Cheers, > - Zaki Mughal > >> The final step when this is all sorted, is to release “PDL” as just a small >> empty distro that has dependencies on PDL::Core plus all the split-out >> modules, for those who want to get the same as there is now, with the same >> CPAN command. >> >> Best regards, >> Ed >> >> From: Chris Marshall >> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 10:53 PM >> To: pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Pdl-devel] PAUSE indexer is happy with PDL-2.009 >> >> Thanks for all the help and great work! >> >> >> --Chris >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pdl-devel mailing list pdl-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pdl-devel
