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Re: Stop turning CPAN modules into Cygwin packages


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Igor Peshansky wrote:
> FWIW, some of these modules might be worth packaging as part of the Cygwin
> Perl package (in vendor_perl), rather than as separate packages.

Actually, I wish that we would NOT be doing this.  Separate modules
should be packaged separately, because otherwise, as we have it now:

1) updating a module requires repackaging (and redownloading, and
reinstalling...) the entire perl;

2) alternatively, the modules just get neglected and go stale;

3) some modules have binary dependencies which the perl core does not
have, e.g. XML-LibXML.

IMO these should all be broken out.  (Hint: as Eric just discovered,
packaging perl modules is *really* easy with cygport.  But then again,
I'm biased.)


Yaakov
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