On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:35:40AM -0400, Michael McCandless wrote: > +1 to release RC3. Excellent -- thank you for participating in Lucy's incubation, Mike!
Now we have three binding votes from our Mentors, and we don't have to contemplate whether my first act as a newly minted member of the Incubator PMC would be to provide the threshold vote for a project I'm heavily involved in. :) For subsequent Lucy releases, I won't hesitate to cast the third binding vote, because hanging out on [email protected] over the last year has made me hypersensitive to the scarcity of Mentors and their time, and because I feel as though I have learned the Incubator and Apache's requirements well enough to vote responsibly. For this inaugural release, though, I'm glad to see Lucy achieve a nice, solid vote tally. > I was able to build, test & install on Fedora 13 Linux. > > My Perl world is apparently quite stale (I'm a Python guy!) -- I had > to go install a bunch of prereqs, starting with Module::Build (even > though Perl was 5.10.1), but also all sorts of other interesting ones. That's interesting. I quite deliberately targeted 5.10.0 when setting the minimum module version requirements for Lucy, and verified the build-and-test recipe on our ReleaseVerification page with a pristine 5.10.0 install. To avoid any licensing ambiguities, the *only* non-core-Perl prerequisites we officially require are those covered explicitly by <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-86>. Module::Build became core in Perl 5.10.0. Installing it and its many prerequisites will be necessary on 5.8.x (Lucy has a hard cutoff at 5.8.3 as a minimum because that's when Unicode support achieved a semblance of stability). If you didn't have it, that suggests that Fedora may have stripped it out. Thanks for persevering -- installing a modern Module::Build does pull in a boatload of dependencies. :\ Most of our users either won't go through that, or it won't throw them for a loop because enough CPAN distros use Module::Build that you're going to need it eventually if you're doing serious Perl development. Marvin Humphrey
