* On Thu, Apr 09 2009, Michael G Schwern wrote: > http://github.com/schwern/extutils-makemaker/ > > After closing a few dozen MakeMaker tickets in the past week or so, I got sick > of applying patches by hand and playing the "try this patch" game. So I've > put MakeMaker on github. > > This has no impact the plan to use a fork of the Perl github repository. > That's held up waiting for the ext test change to be accepted. But there was > no reason to keep using Subversion in the meantime. > > If someone is feeling ambitious, you can try to reconstruct the earlier > MakeMaker history from the old tarballs and Perl versions. It would be nice > to have full history in the repository, we had to trace an issue back through > the tarballs at the QA hackathon. git should allow it to be done a little at > a time. > http://schwern.org/tmp/MakeMaker-history.tar.gz
This is easy enough to do with my git-cpan script here: http://github.com/jrockway/metacpan/blob/be78711a6f12afd3b71fa10ae137d70af6a785c9/lib/MetaCPAN/Script/Import/Git.pm Basically, you can just index every MakeMaker-related tarball you have, and it will create a sane git repository for you. I would like to help, but I am really swamped with a million other projects (and NPW, next week), so I am only pointing out the availability of this code. It's better than writing it from scratch, but complete history might not matter enough to bother learning my code. Ping me on IRC if you have trouble, though. Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
