CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites Proposal: Add "test_requires" distinct from "build_requires". (Adam Kennedy) This proposal is driven by the needs of the downstream distribution packagers. At Oslo, they requested this separation to allow them to more accurately package modules. I forget

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread Ricardo Signes
* David Golden [2009-10-09T07:45:22] > 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites Agreed. Also suggest (08. Extensibly Group Prereqs) as related and useful. -- rjbs

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread Graham Barr
On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:45:22] 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites Agreed. Also suggest (08. Extensibly Group Prereqs) as related and useful. +1 Graham.

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:45:22] >> 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites > > Agreed.  Also suggest (08. Extensibly Group Prereqs) as related and useful. Agree on both points.

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread Steffen Mueller
David Golden wrote: 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites +1 in conjunction with proposal 08. Steffen

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-09 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Oct 9, 2009, at 6:33 AM, Graham Barr wrote: On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote: * David Golden [2009-10-09T07:45:22] 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites Agreed. Also suggest (08. Extensibly Group Prereqs) as related and useful. +1 +1 D

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-10 Thread Zefram
David Golden wrote: >* Should we go all the way towards making prerequisites phase-specific and > have "configure_requires", "build_requires", "test_requires", and > "runtime_requires" Yes please. Currently I put things required for testing into build_requires, but I feel bad about doing it, be

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| David Golden, Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:45:22AM -0400 |=- > 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites > > Proposal: > > Add "test_requires" distinct from "build_requires". (Adam Kennedy) > > This proposal is driven by the needs of the downstream distribution > packagers. At Oslo, they requeste

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-13 Thread Chris Weyl
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > -=| David Golden, Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:45:22AM -0400 |=- >> 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites >> >> Proposal: >> >> Add "test_requires" distinct from "build_requires".  (Adam Kennedy) >> >> This proposal is driven by the needs of t

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-13 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Chris Weyl wrote: > I can also see situations where the set of test requirements isn't a > superset of the build requirements; that is, we might need something > to build but not to test. > > I guess another way to put it would be "is test just a part of the > buil

Re: CMSP 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites

2009-10-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Chris Weyl, Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:19:00PM -0700 |=- > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > Speaking as part of the group that dedicates its time on packaging > > CPAN dists for Debian, I'd say that we don't make difference between > > 'building' and 'testing' as the lat