Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-10-03 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: > Looks a bit weird. Don't we have a better field for this cpan quirks? > Like a new CPAN_DIR which defaults to CPAN_AUTHOR? I've just added an alternative configuration variable CPAN_DIR that records just the directory component and sent the patch (together with a few more to

Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-29 Thread Achim Gratz
Reini Urban writes: > Just for easier understanding: > How would that look like for e.g. > A/AM/AMBS/Inline/Inline-Files-0.68.tar.gz > > NAME=Inline-Files > inherit perl > CPAN_AUTHOR=AMBS/Inline Yes, exactly. > Looks a bit weird. Well, that's the author's choice…. Looks much less wierd to me

Re: [RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-29 Thread Reini Urban
On 09/26/2012 06:51 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: Hi Yaakov, several Perl distributions have chosen to put the actual archives in a subdirectory (e.g. Inline::Files). So far I've dealt with those by editing SRC_URI after "inherit perl", but I'd like something more straigtforward. I propose that CPAN

[RFE][PATCH] cygport: allow for subdirectory specification via CPAN_AUTHOR

2012-09-26 Thread Achim Gratz
Hi Yaakov, several Perl distributions have chosen to put the actual archives in a subdirectory (e.g. Inline::Files). So far I've dealt with those by editing SRC_URI after "inherit perl", but I'd like something more straigtforward. I propose that CPAN_AUTHOR should optionally include this additi