-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > I'm working on creating a bundle of common Perl modules that build and > pass all significant tests on cygwin. > > I hope to have it accepted as a cygwin package.
I think it's preferable to make separate packages for each module. My reasoning: 1) this is the precedent set by Linux distributions; 2) bumping one module doesn't require rolling a whole bundle; 3) separate modules minimizes unnecessary dependencies; 4) I'm sure there's something else I'm forgetting. IOW, I do NOT like this idea. If, OTOH, I do believe that more perl modules should go into the distro, without packaging the entire CPAN, certainly: 1) modules which don't build OOTB (e.g. Tk, gtk2-perl bindings, etc.); 2) modules which are prerequisites for other packages (e.g. ExtUtils::PkgConfig, necessary for building gtk2-perl bindings). The same would apply, of course, to python and ruby. You'll see I already have a large selection on Cygwin Ports, although not all of those are candidates for the distro. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDqvr8piWmPGlmQSMRAhnVAKCQet3+iSEXzFGKuJzkQ2VFt6O8cACgmpOJ DxFLRP7JaFkj1l/LmGaoezA= =Y/CB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
