On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:51:02PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:14:06PM -0600, Yaakov S (Cygwin Ports) wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > 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. > > Large distributions like POE or the DateTime:: modules should have > packages of their own. I was thinking of smaller modules that it > really would make no sense to have one package per CPAN distribution > for, particularly common dependencies of other modules.
To further explain, suppose we had a package of all the DateTime:: modules (which are broken up into many distributions, but I hope you would agree would belong together). They have a number of small general purpose dependencies; putting those in the same package doesn't make sense to me, nor does packaging each individually. I would lump them all together, along with the few modules we don't have packaged yet but that come bundled with ActivePerl (for competitive purposes :) and maybe some of the modules that will be bundled with perl in 5.10. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/