On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:39:25 +0200, Raphael Manfredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello perl5 builders, > > I've revived the "dist" project since I've been using metaconfig and > jmake on another project of mine for several years. > > Ideally, I'd like to be able to retrofit some of the configuration > knowledge gathered by having Configure run on as many platforms as > possible. > > The sources are available under subversion. To access them, you > can run the following: > > svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk/dist I'm now in sync with the svn repo using this: --8<--- trunk2tbz #!/pro/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $url = "https://dist.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dist/trunk";; chdir "/pro/3gl/CPAN/meta-dist"; my ($revision) = (`svn info $url` =~ m{\s Rev: \s+ ([0-9]+) }mx); my @tbz = glob "meta-dist-*-[0-9]*.tbz"; if (@tbz and $tbz[-1] =~ m{.*-([0-9]+)\.tbz$} && $1 == $revision) { print STDERR "$tbz[-1] is the most recent already\n"; exit; } system "svn export $url _dist"; # Creates dir "_dist/dist" rename "_dist/dist", "dist"; rmdir "_dist"; my ($version) = (`cat dist/patchlevel.h` =~ m{define \s+ VERSION \s+ ([\d.]+) }x); my $distdir = "dist-$version-$revision"; rename "dist", $distdir; print "Fetched $distdir\n"; my $startrev = 0; # $revision - 400; # Last 400 changes qx{svn log -r $startrev:$revision $url >$distdir/Changelog}; qx{tar -c -P -f - $distdir | bzip2 -9 >$distdir.tbz}; print "See $distdir/Changelog for the most recent changes\n"; -->8--- -rw-rw-rw- 1 merijn users 398589 2008-01-04 09:42 dist-3.5-19.tbz I'll start looking at the changes and see if they should be integrated in the perl meta units. I will also see if the changes I made to metaconfig and metalint could find it's way back to the trunk. Note that I do not use svn, and have no plans to learn it. git was a high enough hurdle already for someone coming from SCCS. > It would be good if the current maintainers of the metaconfig units > for Perl could join the "dist" project. I'll give you SVN write > access. > > I've also setup a mailing list "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" where > SVN commit messages along with patches will be sent. > > Finally, I've created a #dist IRC channel on irc.freenode.net where > commit messages will be automatically issued. Low volume? :) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
