Gabor Szabo wrote:
Hi, you might know that there is a relatively new organization called Enlightened Perl http://www.enlightenedperl.org/ One of their projects is to create a CPAN module called Task::Kensho http://search.cpan.org/dist/Task-Kensho/ with the sole purpose of setting the dependencies to a list of highly recommended modules. After seeing the post of Dave Cross http://use.perl.org/~davorg/journal/38730 about building rpms from all the modules I thought it might be a good target for the Fedora Perl maintainers as well to turn those packages to be official Fedora and then maybe Red Hat packages. So I'd like to ask you to add Task::Kensho to the list of perl packages you include in Fedora. Satisfying all of the dependencies will bring a nice subset of CPAN to the Fedora users.
One of the points I made in my post was that I've already build RPMs for all of the Kensho modules (or, at least, the ones that aren't already in the Fedora repositories). So if you wanted to move them into the Fedora project you could grab them from http://rpm.mag-sol.com/.
One interesting point that was thrown up by this little project. I built the spec file for perl-Task-Kensho using cpanspec. But cpanspec doesn't seem to recognise the Module::Install syntax for declaring dependencies (see, for example [1]) so I had to add the 'Requires' statements manually. With more and more CPAN authors moving to Module::Install, it would be good if cpanspec could be enhanced to support this syntax.
Cheers, Dave... [1] http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/PERIGRIN/Task-Kensho-0.0.8/Makefile.PL -- Fedora Extras Perl SIG http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Perl Fedora-perl-devel-list mailing list Fedora-perl-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-perl-devel-list
