On 06/02/10 09:28, Aaron Griffin wrote:
Message below is trimmed, but the summary is: pacpan (CPAN wrapper for pacman packages) has been updated with gusto. There is a request to include using pacpan as part of the official guidelines for packaging perl apps for Arch. I think this is a good idea, but it leaves me wondering what we should do with the tool itself - should we be hosting it in the git repos?
What do you guys think?
I'm not sure about the idea. From what I understand, Perl comes in CPAN "distributions", which contain some modules. We take a "distribution" and make a package. This script fills out a provides array with all modules that are part of the package and makes the dependencies be these modules. That may be technically more correct, but the sacrifice is a lot of complexity that I am not sure is really needed. How often do modules swap from one "distribution" to another? Robustness to that is the only advantage I see here. I might be missing something... Saying that, in total perl modules on my system are what is needed for SDL_perl (yay frozen bubble!) and that is the limit of the perl packaging I have to deal with. Allan