-=| Niko Tyni, Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:08:41AM +0200 |=- > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 07:33:13AM +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > I assume that the whole purpose of CoreList is to say whether a given > > module is to be found in the core Perl distribution or is it to be > > found on CPAN or somewhere else. For this kind of classification, > > Miniperl is a "core" module and should be reported. > > Is this just aesthetics, or are you actually using ExtUtils::Miniperl > for something?
Not really.
I discovered that it is not reported by Module::CoreList when I tested
a routine in dh-make-perl that is supposed to find Debian packages,
corresponding to a given Perl module. It needs a way to determine if
a given module is a core one and assume it is contained in
perl-modules. So the test just blindly invokes the routine on all
modules found in /usr/{share,lib}/perl/$Config{version}/ and complains
if some of them is not reported as a core module. All pass, except for
ExtUtils::Miniperl.
The problem I have at hand is that M::CoreList does not match what is
actually shipped.
> I see it was removed from the CPAN side in 2002
> (ExtUtils-MakeMaker-5.50_01) with the rationale that it's not useful to
> anyone outside the Perl core.
I think usability is not relevant here. Is ExtUtils::Miniperl a core
module or not? How is that judged?
My (admittedly naive) criteria is "does it come with perl" and
therefore I think Module::CoreList is wrong here. I also fail to see
why EU::Miniperl is still considered "core" in perls up to 5.9.5, but
not after that.
If EU::Miniperl is not useful for anything else, but only for building
perl, then it should not be shipped at all. That's where my initial
doubt has come from -- is this a bug in M::CoreList or maybe
EU::Miniperl should not be shipped.
It is my belief that this still stands -- either EU::Miniperl is not
to be shipped with perl from 5.10.0 on and M::CoreList is correct, or
EU::Miniperl is to be shipped, is therefore "core", and M::CoreList
has a bug.
Sadly there is no reply to the RT bug :/
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