Konstantin Ryabitsev <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:40:51PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Git::Raw is not packaged with CentOS 7.x; but cpan/cpanm is an
> > option. It is in Debian 10.x as libgit-raw-perl, so I can
> > report bugs via Debian's BTS[*].
>
> FYI, even though lore.kernel.org runs on CentOS 7.x, most perl modules
> come from cpan -- so if your reluctance to use it is based on lore
> usage, that's not something we'd be particularly concerned about.
Thanks for the response. lore is definitely a big factor of
consideration, but I would also like to make it easier for
others to mirror lore w/o needing CPAN.
Fwiw, CentOS 7.x does have libgit2-devel and Inline::C packaged;
so that's an option, too.
Given the announcement of Perl 7 today makes me a little
uneasy(*), I might be a bit more inclined to introduce more
functionality via Inline::C.
(*) Perl 7 will probably be less painful than the Python 3 or
Ruby 1.9 transitions, but those are low bars. Having "only"
a ~decade-long support window for old Perl 5 stuff doesn't
seem sufficient. I guess distros and users (myself included)
will need to do our part to keep things from breaking and
possibly extend maintenance indefinitely.
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