Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> On Jun 28 21:32, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
> > > On Jun 21 20:24, Reini Urban wrote:
> > > > Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes schrieb:
> > > > > On Tue, June 19, 2007 7:24 pm, Reini Urban wrote:
> > > > > > I want to it take over from Gerrit.
> > > > > Thank you so much.  If it were up to me, you'd get three gold stars.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Please try to test it. It's a really weird build system.
> > > > > > But I'm quite happy with this 5.8.8
> > > > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2
> > > > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl-5.8.8-1-src.tar.bz2
> > > > http://rurban.xarch.at/software/cygwin/release/perl/perl_manpages/perl_manpages-5.8.8-1.tar.bz2 
> > [...]
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>
> I'm just looking for the packaging itself.  I'm not a perl programmer,
> so I assume you're looking for creating a actually *working* perl
> yourself ;)

Hmm, that's bad. Feedback from an actual perl programmer would be better.

> Ok, that's what looks not quite ok to me:
>
> - Your package pollutes the /usr/bin directory with two versions of
>   *almost* every tool in the perl package, foo, foo5.8.8, bar, bar5.8.8,
>   etc.  The former 5.8.7 package only created a perl5.8.8 parallel to
>   the perl exe, but all other binaries were only available without
>   versioning, same as in the Linux distros I have my hands on, btw.

This is intended and current practice for perl developers with a lot of 
different perl versions around to test their libraries against.
perl-5.8.7 didn't have the versioned binaries and scripts, but with 5.10 
being very near I wanted to give the opportunity to test with parallel 
perl installations.
The big thing is only cygperl5_8.dll (only one) and a2p, the rest is small.

Usage example:
cpan5.8.8 installs into different paths than cpan5.9.5.

perldoc == perldoc5.8.8 displays the stable doc, while perldoc5.9.5 
displays the current doc, which is different.

prove5.8.8 tests stable, prove5.9.5 tests "blead" (the current perl).

>   Almost, because there are two variances:
>
>   - ld2, perlld, ptar and ptardiff only exist in the non-versioned style.

Yes, that's ok. ld2 and perlld intentionally. And ptar, ptardiff due to 
an upstream bug. Hmm.

>   - psed and pstruct only exist in the versioned style.

Hmm. Strange upstream installer. A bug, but not important.

> - ld2 is not available in the perl package for Linux.  Is that
>   binary actually for public consumption?

Yes, ld2 is the windows-only ld wrapper.

> - The directory /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/auto, present in 5.8.7, is missing.

Oops! POSIX/SigAction/*.al are needed!
A packaging bug. No .packlist picked them up.

> Everything else looks ok to me.

Please wait for -2.
--
Reini Urban