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Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages

From:
Stas Bekman
Date:
March 30, 2003 19:44
Subject:
Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages
Message ID:
3E87B9A9.8010307@stason.org
Ken Williams wrote:
> 
> On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:36  PM, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>> The more I think about it the more I like my latest idea. I'm going to
>> expand on it in this post as I think it may do more things than just
>> solving the bundling problem.
>>
>> What I'm proposing is to have a mechanism similar to /robots.txt in
>> the HTTP protocol, where '/' is the root of the web server namespace
>> So now we have "the CPAN indexer protocol" and we introduce /INDEX,
>> where / is the top-level directory of a given package.
>>
>> /INDEX provides a way for a package to tell the indexer what it wants
>> to be exposed and/or what not. We can work out a simple syntax, like:
>>
>> +lib/            # expose all packages under lib/
>> -lib/private.pm  # but exclude lib/private.pm
>> +lib2/Foo.pm     # expose lib2/Foo.pm
> 
> 
> Module::Build may soon do something like this, though not in as though not
 > in as fancy/complex a way.

it doesn't have to be fancy/complex. To my immediate need a file with explicit 
listing of all the files to be listed will suffice.

[...]

What happens to the modules which don't use Module::Build, but use EU::MM?

I need to release Apache::Test on CPAN and I can't do that, because of the 
bundling problem. I don't know how many man-months very spent on writing the 
current mod_perl 2.0's build, and while it'd be cool to move to Module::Build 
it'll take a *lot* of time.

Really, why that should be such a big problem to filter out files which are 
listed in a given skip list file?

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