Hi Robert, > Am 14.11.2016 um 22:45 schrieb Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>: > > > to follow up on a point i made earlier, it seems that a number of > recipes in meta-cpan are, these days, unnecessary as they are > available in the standard OE or meta-oe layers. i took a quick look > and found the following examples: > > meta-cpan OE/meta-oe equivalent type > > > uri-perl liburi-perl oe-core > encode-locale-perl libencode-locale-perl meta-perl > io-socket-ssl-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl meta-perl > compress-raw-bzip2-perl perl-module-compress-raw-bzip2 MODULE > compress-raw-zlib-perl perl-module-compress-raw-zlib MODULE > io-compress-perl perl-module-io-compress-* MODULE(???) > dbd-sqlite-perl libdbd-sqlite-perl > meta-perl > dbi-perl libdbi-perl meta-perl > capture-tiny-perl libcapture-tiny-perl meta-perl > class-method-modifiers-perl libclass-method-modifiers-perl meta-perl > extutils-config-perl libextutils-config-perl meta-perl > extutils-cppguess-perl libextutils-cppguess-perl > meta-perl > extutils-helpers-perl libextutils-helpers-perl meta-perl > extutils-installpaths-perl libextutils-installpaths-perl meta-perl > extutils-parsexs-perl libextutils-parsexs-perl meta-perl > getopt-long-perl perl-module-getopt-long MODULE > mime-types-perl libmime-types-perl > meta-perl > > so you can see that a number of meta-cpan recipes appear to be > effectively available in basic OE. does that make them unnecessary? is > there any reason to have meta-cpan recipes that basically reproduce > what is already available? (other than version numbers, of course.)
you're slightly to fast. There is a clear reason for that what you identified as superfluous: reliability. Experienced users expected, one can easily add an liburi-perl_%.bbappend or an uri-perl_%.bbappend containing a PROVIDES+="...". But noone is enforced to remove such a PROVIDES... What drives me to package cpan distributions which are already in meta-oe? The way they're packaged. meta-cpan containes recipes in a way as they're meant by CPAN authors, not by Debian or oe-contributors. Best regards -- Jens Rehsack - [email protected]
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