tldr; for "second class" perl modules used by multiple other perl modules, I've moved t hem to the top level in the perl modules page, but without any version number.
I'm (still) in the process of building the individual biber dependencies using cpan to install each on a minimal system (and then backing them out). For biblatex-biber-2.6 there are a lot more of them. I've already found a few errors (modules which are already present in core perl with suitable versions, one missing dependency), but I noticed a lot of low-level modules used by many things. Where a module is "external" (i.e. we don't have a versioned entry in the book) the XML is deeply nested for dependencies. This simple editing monkey finds it hard to notice that there are links to some random module if it is not at the top level of the page (i.e. name in bold type, in alphabetical order). What I've now done is move those modules which have multiple references only on this page (Capture::Tiny, XML::LibXML, XML::SAX) to the top level, but without a version, md5sum, built/checked tag or versioned download. This doesn't of itself reduce the deep nesting, but it provides some minor help. I cannot see any reason to make them first-class versioned citizens in the book, that will just add to the churn. Unfortunately, the XML is still deeply nested, and I'm not looking forward to adding the new biblatex-biber-2.6 dependencies when I've sorted them out. Using cpan seems to have installed a *lot* more dependencies for DateTime::TimeZone than I needed in my manual build, but even without those I had 24 new modules). Now that I have a spare system with only the core perl modules, using cpan to check dependencies (and also to find things which are no longer needed) is possible, but tedious, and I do not intend to do it frequently. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
