From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5312 invoked by alias); 4 May 2014 05:51:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 5275 invoked by uid 89); 4 May 2014 05:51:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ig0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f179.google.com) (209.85.213.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sun, 04 May 2014 05:51:38 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f179.google.com with SMTP id hn18so3501534igb.0 for ; Sat, 03 May 2014 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.42.249.8 with SMTP id mi8mr25639112icb.4.1399182696768; Sat, 03 May 2014 22:51:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.101] (S0106000cf16f58b1.wp.shawcable.net. [24.79.212.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id rt10sm13701043igb.15.2014.05.03.22.51.34 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 03 May 2014 22:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5365D569.3060207@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 05:51:00 -0000 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl-5.18.2-1 References: <534078A2.4000601@tiscali.co.uk> <87bnwf2cjl.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <534174C4.5010608@tiscali.co.uk> <87y4zi1kib.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <5341A3F5.2040506@tiscali.co.uk> <8761mlx7im.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <87a9bvsnse.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <8761loegk8.fsf_-_@Rainer.invalid> <53644EFC.1090703@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <53644EFC.1090703@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-05/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On 2014-05-02 21:05, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/2/2014 4:21 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: >> 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. > > I'm not even sure that such an umbrella is needed. Maintainers of > packages that rely on Perl modules can simply use cygport to determine > which perl-* packages are required. I don't see the need for a > perl_vendor package that brings in some arbitrarily chosen collection of > Perl modules. > > Reini, I know you think it's more work to split up perl_vendor than to > keep it as is, but Achim has offered to do the work. And it would make > things much easier for those of us who maintain packages that require > Perl modules. With the current bundling, we have to check for each > required module whether or not it's included in perl_vendor. I just did > this for biber, and it's very tedious. I hope you'll reconsider. +1, and I'm willing to help with some of the modules as well. Yaakov