Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jan 13,2003 15:44:15 -0600, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:33 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: >> On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 20:34 US/Eastern, Carsten Klapp wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Aside from these directory name issues I have a start on some perl

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-13 Thread Chris Dolan
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:33 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 20:34 US/Eastern, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi All, Aside from these directory name issues I have a start on some perl 5.8 info files based on a perl 5.8 info file from the submission tracker. The modules I

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 20:34 US/Eastern, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi All, Aside from these directory name issues I have a start on some perl 5.8 info files based on a perl 5.8 info file from the submission tracker. The modules I found so far which need to be recompiled simply have a new inf

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Let me jump back in one more time regarding multiple versions of perl module packages. There is a nifty system for emacs versions in Debian, which has been mostly implemented in Fink (except that not every package follows it), in which various files are registered as emacs source files and then if

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi All, Aside from these directory name issues I have a start on some perl 5.8 info files based on a perl 5.8 info file from the submission tracker. The modules I found so far which need to be recompiled simply have a new info file identical to the old one but with a build/depends on the new

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Chris Dolan
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 12:49 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: A couple of comments on this thread: 1) Fred Sanchez wrote a revised darwin.sh for perl in the fall, which was accepted into the perl tree. I believe that it essentially implements what Chris did. We should follow it. (Links

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: David> 2) By convention, the user-modifiable portion of the Fink tree David> is /sw/etc. So I think we should create /sw/etc/perl/5.6.0 and David> /sw/etc/perl/5.8.0 and symlink them back into the /sw/lib/perl David> trees that

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> A couple of comments on this thread: David> 1) Fred Sanchez wrote a revised darwin.sh for perl in the fall, which was David> accepted into the perl tree. I believe that it essentially implements David> what Chris did. We should

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread David R. Morrison
A couple of comments on this thread: 1) Fred Sanchez wrote a revised darwin.sh for perl in the fall, which was accepted into the perl tree. I believe that it essentially implements what Chris did. We should follow it. (Links to the document were in my previous post.) 2) By convention, the use

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 11:48 AM, Chris Dolan wrote: No, that's not right at all. As I discussed with rangerrick on the submission tracker, Perl already HAS a standard for dealing with binary incompatible modules. Apple stupidly overrode that mechanism and we've been dealing with it

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Chris Dolan
Sorry to join this discussion late... On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 09:49 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: So the subject of perl 5.8 came up again on #fink, and I started taking a look at what we had. Chris Dolan put together a great package for perl 5.8, but it has one problem -- it still puts

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Here are a few relevant posts: http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg87083.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg06039.html and, someone who implemented this, more or less... http://maikimo.net/radio/stories/2002/11/23/buildingperl580modperlapac.html We also need to look at the "standard" instructions for roll-y

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
FYI, David Morrison and I talked about this some more in #fink, and there is more to think about. 1) is trying to find a way to transition (perhaps /sw/lib/perl/5.6 and /sw/lib/perl/5.8 ?), and 2) is making things clean bootstrap-wise. There was post from Fred Sanchez with some ideas on doing

[Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
So the subject of perl 5.8 came up again on #fink, and I started taking a look at what we had. Chris Dolan put together a great package for perl 5.8, but it has one problem -- it still puts everything in /sw/lib/perl5 just like our 5.6 packages. The problem is perl 5.6 modules are not binary-