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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Mon Aug 27 21:54:19 UTC 2012


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" ?

> 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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