From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Perl modules Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 23:17:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20131206221704.GA11316@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60807) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vp3hz-0000gW-Ah for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:17:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vp3hs-0001e5-Vk for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:17:15 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.9]:53422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vp3hs-0001dp-M0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:17:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, it looks like I have stumbled upon an enormous dependency tree: For kdelibs, I would like soprano; for soprano, I would like redland; for redland, I need rasqal; for some tests of rasqal to work, I need perl-xml-dom; for perl-xml-dom, I need libwww-perl; for libwww-perl, I need a lot of packages: Warning: prerequisite Encode::Locale 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite File::Listing 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTML::Entities 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTML::HeadParser 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Cookies 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Daemon 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Date 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Negotiate 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Request 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Request::Common 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Response 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite HTTP::Status 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite LWP::MediaTypes 6 not found. Warning: prerequisite Net::HTTP 6.04 not found. Warning: prerequisite URI 1.10 not found. Warning: prerequisite URI::Escape 0 not found. Warning: prerequisite WWW::RobotRules 6 not found. This leads me to the question: How should the packages containing perl modules be named, and in which files should they be defined? So far, there are the following packages in xml.scm: perl-xml-parser containing XML-Parser perl-xml-parser-perlsax containing libxml-perl perl-xml-simple containing XML-Simple The second one is definitely a misnomer; I was looking for XML::Parser::PerlSAX, and a search led me to the documentation page http://search.cpan.org/~kmacleod/libxml-perl-0.08/lib/XML/Parser/PerlSAX.pm which is just one of the modules of libxml-perl http://search.cpan.org/~kmacleod/libxml-perl-0.08/ If we follow our standard naming scheme, then the packages should be called xml-parser, libxml-perl and xml-simple. Notice that two of them do not contain the word "perl". Should we add "perl" in front then, similarly to what we do with python modules? How about libxml-perl? Do we keep it as such, or should we then call it perl-libxml-perl for consistency? Concerning the files, maybe all perl modules should go into perl.scm? Your opinions are welcome. Andreas