From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:54:19 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/9] perl: new package v4 In-Reply-To: References: <1346081293-18845-1-git-send-email-francois.perrad@gadz.org> <20120827211024.492b964e@skate> Message-ID: <20120827235419.0486035e@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:05:53 +0200, Fran?ois Perrad a ?crit : > 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" ? > 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 -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com