Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:14:14 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: milki <milki@rescomp.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-perl@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MASTER_SITES/MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR for perl ports Message-ID: <20110210101414.GB75152@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20110210094416.GG81862@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> References: <20110210091512.GE81862@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu> <20110210093934.GA75152@heechee.tobez.org> <20110210094416.GG81862@hal.rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:44:17AM -0800, milki wrote: > On 10:39 Thu 10 Feb , Anton Berezin wrote: > > It is better to use modules/by-module because the author can > > change, and for a number of modules changes pretty often. This is > > especially true for a number of modules developed by a community > > wider than a single person. In particular, a lot of Catalyst and > > Moose-related modules "change" the author often from one release > > to another. > > Wouldn't an option be to actually dynamically generation the SUBDIR > based on cpan's 02package.details.txt then? Could you clarify what you mean by that? During the port creation/update by a maintainer? Nothing prevents the maintainer to use whatever tools to make this happen. During the actual port installation? I think that would be a bad idea. \Anton. -- Our society can survive even a large amount of irrational regulation. -- John McCarthy
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