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I have finally put together all of my scripts to build arbitrary perls
from the APC repository, do a binary search through them to identify
changes in behaviour, and import all of APC into a local subversion
repository. Rafael's perlpatch2svn is part of the toolset.
In general I believe, buildaperl is the fastest and
bandwidth-friendliest method to get at an up-to-the-minute bleadperl.
The Makefile I use to sync both bleadperl and the current state of
5.8.1 is also included.
Below is the README.
Feedback welcome.
Enjoy,
--
andreas
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About this distro
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This collection of scripts and modules provides access to the APC (All
Perl Changes) archive:
Scripts
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patchaperlup a low level script that only builds
new perl sources from old perl
sources by applying numerically
sorted patchfiles.
buildaperl a wrapper around patchaperlup that
is able to compile and install a new
perl into its own cache area.
binsearchaperl a wrapper around buildaperl that is
able to run already built perls from
the cache area, build new perls via
buildaperl and compare their
functionality. If there is a
different behaviour between two
perls, the script is able to
determine the exact patch number
that caused the change.
perlpatch2svn parse a stream of patches from the
APC and feed them into a Subversion
repository. Pedantically reconstruct
as much as possible from the
Perforce repository, binary files
that are missing in the APC are
restored from a dump.
apc2svn a wrapper around perlpatch2svn which
has a concept how a future
subversion repository might look
like. It is able to import the whole
APC into an empty or prepopulated
repository. Incremental updates from
APC into this repository supported.
**Use with caution**, the repository
layout itself is still subject to
change.
Modules
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Perl::Repository::APC provides methods to get at the
important metadata of the
APC--branches, perl versions and
patches.
Perl::Repository::APC2SVN a collection of utility functions
for the scripts that deal with
importing the APC into a Subversion
repository.
Perl::Repository::APC::BAP Heuristics to understand arguments
5.6.0@5666, 5.7.3@, @17000, etc. as
short names for patched perl
versions. Only used by buildaperl.
Copyright
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Code and data are copyright (C) 2002,2003 Andreas Koenig and Rafael
Garcia-Suarez. They can be used, modified, and redistributed under the
same terms as Perl itself.
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