Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:15:20 -0500 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port dependencies on p5-Test-* Message-ID: <20080225061520.234ae6d2@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <759236930802250245j646f5be5k8382bedbfb2a7c1e@mail.gmail.com> References: <86zltpzrxt.fsf@ds4.des.no> <759236930802242324o614598d1i1a8ca3cc8c12478c@mail.gmail.com> <86prulibf4.fsf@ds4.des.no> <759236930802250245j646f5be5k8382bedbfb2a7c1e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:45:58 -0800
"Yen-Ming Lee" <leeym@leeym.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/25, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no>:
> > "Yen-Ming Lee" <leeym@leeym.com> writes:
> > > [unreadable]
> >
> > Please fix your MUA.
>=20
>=20
> My MUA is Gmail. I can't really "fix" it.
> The only thing I can do is to resend them with plain text format...
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> ----- resend 1 -----
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> I guess some of these PERL ports which depends on p5-Test;* are
> committed by me.
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> For Makefile.PL, all dependencies are listed in 'PREREQ_PM' so it's
> hard to tell which ones are really needed and which ones are needed
> only for tests.
> For Build.PL, it will be easier since they are listed in 'requires'
> and 'build_requires' separately.
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> What I did for these packages is:
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> RUN_DEPENDS=3D the real dependencies
> BUILD_DEPENDS=3D${RUN_DEPENDS}
> BUILD_DEPENDS+=3D the dependencies needed only for test
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> It will make the port depend on the real dependencies only.
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> Most PERL ports can build without any other p5- port if we ignore the
> ones needed for tests.
> Does it mean that we should ignore BUILD_DEPENDS entirely?
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> Removing all p5-Test-* from Makefile.PL or Build.PL may break some
> ports (for example, some other p5-Test-* ports) which really need
> p5-Test-*.
> However, I agree to remove p5-Test-Simple from dependency since it's
> in PERL core list already.
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> ----- resend 2 -----
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> I mean Test::More when I mentioned p5-Test-Simple. Test::More is in
> the core list of PERL 5.6.2 or above.
> But for other modules in p5-Test-Simple, say Test::Builder::Tester and
> Test::Builder::Module, they are in the core list of PERL 5.8.8 or
> above.
FWIW, I had not trouble reading either version of your posts, although
plain text is by far the preferred format.
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Gerard
gerard@seibercom.net
Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.
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