[Buildroot] [UNSURE]Re: [PATCH 1/9] perl: new package v4

François Perrad francois.perrad at gadz.org
Tue Aug 28 12:06:56 UTC 2012


2012/8/27 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Le Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:05:53 +0200,
> François Perrad <francois.perrad at gadz.org> a écrit :
>
>> miniperl is built during the full perl build, it is just a specific
>> installation.
>> There are no common step (configure, build of exe, build of modules,
>> install) between microperl and perl.
>> So, technically a merge of these packages is not easy.
>
> Ok.
>
>> I've updated microperl to the latest stable release.
>> But I think that microperl is an useless toy which will be removed
>> soon by the Perl community.
>
> As long as the long term intention is to get rid of microperl, I'm
> fine. Should we mark it "depends on BR2_DEPRECATED" ?
>

What makes sense.

François

>> I prefer spend my time with the full perl and the CPAN modules.
>> There still a lot of work with Perl community for put my patches in
>> the upstream.
>>
>> With this today version, cpanminus really cross-compiles the modules from CPAN.
>> The Dancer web framework (my current goal) requires 22 modules from CPAN.
>> The CPAN contains more than 23000 modules. This is the challenge.
>>         « CPAN is the language, Perl is just its syntax » - Audrey Tang.
>
>  :-)
>
> Thomas
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