First, thank you for working on this! Now some comments ...
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 19:07 +0200, Reini Urban wrote: > parrot-languages is my compressed version of the fedora split, > they have for every single language a seperate package. Thank you for choosing the single-package route here. > I just left the docs/examples, the others stripped it. > pdb is called parrot_pdb, disassemble is called pbc_disassemble. Both of these are good changes (and I don't think the other packagers should have stripped the examples; they are arguably necessary to understand certain constructions, since our official docs are not complete and are difficult to navigate in places). > .include searchpath: > /usr/runtime/parrot/include > /usr/runtime/parrot > /usr > /usr/lib/parrot/include > /usr/lib/parrot/ > . /usr/runtime doesn't seem "right" to me (and it's not FHS-compliant, IIRC). I notice that none of your packages install to /usr/runtime, and I'd prefer to just drop it. Why is raw '/usr' included? Side note to the Parrot Porters: the redundant 'parrot' directory under 'runtime' in the source tree makes no sense to me. I'm in favor of moving its three subdirectories up a level, and dropping the extra cruft. > /usr/share/doc/parrot/LICENSE > /usr/share/doc/parrot/RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES > /usr/share/doc/parrot/TODO Should probably include NEWS here in the main parrot package; for the last year and a half, all of the key updates have been listed there (ChangeLog is only useful for historical spelunking, and can be placed in -devel). Also, CREDITS fills in a lot of details that RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES leaves out, and it arguably belongs in the main package right next to the LICENSE. Plus it maximizes karma exposure for our valued contributor base; for the same reason, I'd vote for DONORS.pod here as well. A "binary package" version of the official README that drops the PREREQUISITES, INSTRUCTIONS, and NOTES blocks seems like a good idea too. DEPRECATED.pod and PBC_COMPAT need to be in the -devel package. Speaking of all these docs, do the various distro ports/packages include manpages (at least a minimal 'parrot' manpage, as I believe Debian and OpenBSD require to comply with their respective policies)? -'f
