X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47600FC7.8010101@awcubed.com> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:43:51 -0500 From: Archie Warnock User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Stop turning CPAN modules into Cygwin packages References: <1ff86f510712120704w5f175db9md89d05d936d535ed@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Igor Peshansky wrote: > BTW, this problem must have been encountered (and, hopefully, solved) by > other distros. How does the Debian git package handle this? I seem to > recall that at least Red Hat Linux at some point had packages for some > CPAN modules... I don't know how they solve dependencies, or if it has anything to do with dependencies, but I can tell you that Fedora Core 8 (and earlier versions) have a _lot_ of CPAN modules packaged as RPMs. I, too, prefer to get my modules directly from CPAN but I do run into occasional compilation problems from time to time. At those times, it's really handy to have the packages available. But, as already mentioned, those should be fixes that are passed upstream to the CPAN module owner/maintainer anyway. -- Archie -- Archie Warnock Internet: warnock@awcubed.com -- A/WWW Enterprises http://www.awcubed.com -- As a matter of fact, I _do_ speak for my employer. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/