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

[François Perrad]

2012/8/27 Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for all this work.
>
> Wouldn't it be possible to make the microperl thing part of the perl
> package, with a sub-option that allows to decide between the full-blown
> perl variant, or the limited microperl variant? I would prefer that a
> lot over a duplicated perl package as you're proposing now, if possible
> of course.
>

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.

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.

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.

François

> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
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