Re: perl Bundle::Cygwin / perl-bundle-cygwin package

["Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl modules that build and
> pass all significant tests on cygwin.
> 
> I hope to have it accepted as a cygwin package.

I think it's preferable to make separate packages for each module.  My
reasoning:

1) this is the precedent set by Linux distributions;
2) bumping one module doesn't require rolling a whole bundle;
3) separate modules minimizes unnecessary dependencies;
4) I'm sure there's something else I'm forgetting.

IOW, I do NOT like this idea.

If, OTOH, I do believe that more perl modules should go into the distro,
without packaging the entire CPAN, certainly:

1) modules which don't build OOTB (e.g. Tk, gtk2-perl bindings, etc.);
2) modules which are prerequisites for other packages (e.g.
ExtUtils::PkgConfig, necessary for building gtk2-perl bindings).

The same would apply, of course, to python and ruby.  You'll see I
already have a large selection on Cygwin Ports, although not all of
those are candidates for the distro.


Yaakov
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