Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:23:28 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon <james@nexis.net> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New collection for ports - perl ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961001102158.24726A-100000@bdd.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961001122424.12434A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > perl5 includes an imake-like tool called MakeMaker, so porting them is a > > > piece of cake. Once installed, they even include a packing list, making > > > the generation of pkg/PLIST a simple task. > > > > I'm not sure it is interesting as it would duplicate something already > > present in the Perl mechanisms (MakeMaker and al) and would only be a > > wrapper around > > It is. Actually, in case of some perl modules (was it GD?) you also will > need some C code which is to be compiled. Also - there is the problem of > maintaining the thing - was this or that module version 1.0, 2.0 or did I > upgrade to 3.0? Did I remove all the files no more used by the newer one? > None of these is handled by the MakeMaker. FreeBSD ports do have some > solutions to these problems. Additionally, this would: 1. Make them even easier (1 line over 3 isn't much, but it's something) 2. Help track the hideous dependancies that Perl modules have on each other 3. Make uninstallation a snap, something that the MakeMaker package in perl does not do. -- j. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | | Integrator, The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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