[Buildroot] [PATCH 13/13] microperl: mark as DEPRECATED

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear François Perrad,

On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 17:11:56 +0200, François Perrad wrote:

> > Yes, I perfectly remember asking you to mark microperl as
> > deprecated, since you were saying that microperl was a dead-end. My
> > question here is different: knowing that microperl is deprecated,
> > why would we bother bumping its version, making fixes and so on? It
> > doesn't look really interesting to write patches against deprecated
> > and even less interesting to review such patches :-)
> >
> 
> Today, 5 packages depend on microperl :
>     autoconf
>     automake
>     ntp
>     samba
>     libxml-parser-perl (requires only a full host perl)
> So, I think that it is not a good idea to remove it (after a
> deprecation).

Ehh, can't those packages be changed to depend on perl or miniperl
instead of microperl?

I think you still don't get the point I'm making: you have said
yourself that microperl is a dead end, because it is no longer
maintained upstream. Therefore we mark it deprecated, with the idea of
removing it during the next release cycle. For this reason, I don't
think it's worth spending time making more fixes, upgrades and so on on
microperl (which half of your patch series is doing). Is my point
clearer?

Thanks!

Thomas
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