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Re: perl-5.18.2-1 (was: 64-bit: Missing perl modules)
- From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko at nexgo dot de>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 10:21:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: perl-5.18.2-1 (was: 64-bit: Missing perl modules)
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Reini Urban writes:
> It's vastly easier to keep perl_vendor than to split it up.
I've been looking at the test package for the upcoming 5.18.2 release
announced in http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-04/msg00038.html
and I'd like to contest that assertion again.
TL;DR: I still propose to keep each Perl distribution as a separate
package (yes, I'm willing to ITP them) and move perl_vendor to an
umbrella package that simply bundles those individual packages plus
perhaps a README.
Long version:
First off, there is a flurry of changes in the content of perl_vendor
that you didn't list in the announcement. This is exactly my gripe with
opaque bundling: anyone who's been relying on perl_vendor to deliver a
certain set of Perl distributions will suddenly find that some have been
removed and others have been added and the only way to find that out is
to look into the source archive. This also means you're going to have a
package conflict if any of those distributions are packaged (either
locally or in cygports) or some of your intended changes become hidden
behind things in site_perl (which may or may not be the latest version
or missing some of the patches you applied to vendor_perl).
Secondly, some of the distributions you've removed from perl_vendor are
actually run-time requirements of the modules that are in (plus a few
new ones that weren't in the old perl_vendor). Packaging errors on the
Perl side are a possibility (although usually these are missing
dependencies, not additional ones), but barring that there's 25 more
distributions that need to be delivered with perl_vendor:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
perl-Sub-Install
perl-Data-OptList
perl-Encode-Locale
perl-HTTP-Date
perl-IO-HTML
perl-LWP-MediaTypes
perl-HTTP-Message
perl-Sub-Exporter
perl-Data-Dump
perl-File-Listing
perl-HTTP-Cookies
perl-HTTP-Daemon
perl-HTTP-Negotiate
perl-Net-HTTP
perl-WWW-RobotRules
perl-File-Which
perl-MRO-Compat
perl-Capture-Tiny
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
perl-Data-Section
perl-Devel-Autoflush
perl-Digest-HMAC
perl-Mozilla-CA
perl-Text-Template
perl-YAML-Syck
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Then there's 19 more distributions needed for building (those do not
need to be in perl_vendor), bringing the total for a successful build
from scratch to 125 distributions:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
perl-Sub-Uplevel
perl-Inline-Files
perl-Params-Util
perl-Parse-RecDescent
perl-Sub-Install
perl-Test-Warn
perl-common-sense
perl-Data-OptList
perl-Encode-Locale
perl-HTTP-Date
perl-IO-HTML
perl-Inline
perl-LWP-MediaTypes
perl-Types-Serialiser
perl-URI
perl-Capture-Tiny
perl-Class-XSAccessor
perl-Data-UUID
perl-HTML-Tagset
perl-HTTP-Message
perl-IO-Tty
perl-IPC-Run3
perl-JSON-XS
perl-Number-Compare
perl-Probe-Perl
perl-Sub-Exporter
perl-Text-Glob
perl-Try-Tiny
perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo
perl-Data-Dump
perl-Data-GUID
perl-File-Find-Object
perl-File-Find-Rule
perl-File-Listing
perl-HTML-Parser
perl-HTTP-Cookies
perl-HTTP-Daemon
perl-HTTP-Negotiate
perl-IO-Prompt-Tiny
perl-IPC-Run
perl-JSON
perl-Net-HTTP
perl-Test-Fatal
perl-Test-Script
perl-WWW-RobotRules
perl-Archive-Zip
perl-Compress-Bzip2
perl-Data-Compare
perl-Devel-Symdump
perl-File-Find-Object-Rule
perl-File-Which
perl-IO-CaptureOutput
perl-IO-Socket-IP
perl-MRO-Compat
perl-Metabase-Fact
perl-Module-Signature
perl-Net-SSLeay
perl-Test-FailWarnings
perl-Test-Tester
perl-Test-Without-Module
perl-XML-NamespaceSupport
perl-XML-SAX-Base
perl-YAML-LibYAML
perl-libwww-perl
perl-CPAN-Checksums
perl-CPAN-Testers-Report
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2
perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib
perl-Config-Tiny
perl-Data-Section
perl-Devel-Autoflush
perl-Digest-HMAC
perl-Expect
perl-File-Copy-Recursive
perl-File-HomeDir
perl-File-Remove
perl-File-chmod
perl-File-pushd
perl-IO-Socket-SSL
perl-Metabase-Client-Simple
perl-Mozilla-CA
perl-PAR-Dist
perl-Pod-Coverage
perl-Socket6
perl-TermReadKey
perl-Test-NoWarnings
perl-Test-Reporter
perl-Test-Requires
perl-Test-TrailingSpace
perl-Text-Template
perl-XML-SAX
perl-YAML
perl-YAML-Syck
perl-B-Generate
perl-CPAN
perl-CPAN-Inject
perl-CPAN-Reporter
perl-Config-Perl-V
perl-Data-Alias
perl-Digest-SHA
perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder
perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS
perl-File-Temp
perl-IO-Compress
perl-IO-Socket-INET6
perl-IO-String
perl-LWP-Protocol-https
perl-Module-Build
perl-Module-ScanDeps
perl-Net-DNS
perl-Net-IP
perl-Net-Telnet
perl-PadWalker
perl-Pod-Escapes
perl-Pod-Simple
perl-Proc-ProcessTable
perl-Software-License
perl-Tee
perl-Term-ReadLine-Gnu
perl-Term-ReadLine-Perl
perl-Test-Pod
perl-Test-Pod-Coverage
perl-Test-Reporter-Transport-Metabase
perl-XML-LibXML
perl-XML-Parser
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
If you build and install these in this order, then you can bootstrap
perl_vendor without using CPAN or cpanminus in about an hour or two.
The dependency walker that produces the above output also produces the
necessary cygport files, which only seldomly need some manual edits
(mainly for setting test options). At the moment I just build from the
command line, but putting this into a Makefile is certainly possible.
Regards,
Achim.
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