Anton Berezin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having discussed this at a whiteboard with lth@ (ah, the advantages of > face-to-face communication!), we came up with the following idea for > bsd.perl.mk's implementation. > > PERL_DEPENDS. This will be the one which will be used most of the time, > since (p5-Test-* ports notwithstanding) it is actually difficult to come up > with cases when we want BUILD_DEPENDS without accompanying RUN_DEPENDS.
Mostly correct. Imagine the situtation if MakeMaker wasn't in core; now imagine a Perl package that depends on something other than MakeMaker to generate the Makefile. > PERL_DEPENDS= \ > p5-CGI.pm>3:www/p5-CGI.pm \ > devel/p5-Time-HiRes>=1.86 \ > textproc/p5-Regexp-Common This is exactly what I was thinking of, which clearly shows that it *was* obvious :) > The second one, which will be good for the vast majority of cases, looses > the package name, which is derived from the port name (by the way, the > p5-CGI.pm case can also be written like this; we cannot, from the top of our > collective head, come up with a p5 port for which the package name base > differs from the port directory name). I can: p5-libwww installs several Perl modules, none if which is called libwww. > Additionally, bsd.perl.mk maintains a little database for dual-life modules, > recording which version is present in which core. Why? If perl isn't installed, build that first. If perl is installed, use 'perl -M$MODULE -e "1;"' to check whether the module exists, or if a certain version is required, 'perl -e "use $MODULE $VERSION;"' > What do people think of this? If we see positive reaction, we'll just > temporarily switch from coding in Perl to coding in make. :-) I'm perfectly willing to implement this myself, if you're allergic to make - or we can do it together at the Oslo QA Hackathon :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
