> Richter, Gerald wrote: > > The best would be, if we had a packages maintainers for the main > > distrubtions (like Debian, SUSE, RedHat etc.) which knows > about their > > distribution (because I do not know all the specifica of all these > > distributions) > > Wasn't Angus Lees doing that for Debian?
Angus Lees and Gunnar Wolf: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/libembperl-perl > I use Debian, but I have never gotten into the Debian build and test > process. I'm an experienced developer, but there seems to be another > level of really "hard core" developer that is way above me in > terms of > knowledge - they seem to know all the ins and outs of system > level stuff > and compiler switches etc which I've just never had to learn, > so haven't. The current stable distribution (lenny) has embperl 2.2.0 and CGI.pm 3.29 (part of the core perl-modules package). The latest versions of perl-modules in the testing and unstable distributions only include <3.33 of CGI.pm in the core group (I think - guess from changelogs) so it looks like things will keep being easily compilable on stock debian. However, there seems to be a specific package for a more up to date CGI.pm: libcgi-pm-perl. The description of this package recommends not using it unless you need POSTDATA but at least you then have the ability to test builds against the newer combination. Whilst I've built local packages for the debian systems I maintain to incorporate some minor bugfixes (patches were posted to the list a while back) I've never really needed to go into the lower level XS that this type of packaging seems to require. I'm more than happy to play with the debian uscan/uupdate tools to see how far the automated tools get me but currently I don't have a single system that either has the later versions of CGI.pm standard or requires it so it won't be something happening in the next week or so I'm afraid. Cheers, Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: embperl-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: embperl-h...@perl.apache.org
