[bug#28028] [PATCH 0/9] Perl crypto things

[Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> writes:
>
>> Hi Guix,
>>
>> this is from my staging heap.
>>
>> Ricardo Wurmus (9):
>>   gnu: Add perl-hash-fieldhash.
>>   gnu: Add perl-math-random-isaac-xs.
>>   gnu: Add perl-math-random-isaac.
>>   gnu: Add perl-type-tie.
>>   gnu: Add perl-regexp-util.
>>   gnu: Add perl-ref-util-xs.
>>   gnu: Add perl-type-tiny.
>>   gnu: Add perl-crypt-random-source.
>>   gnu: Add perl-math-random-secure.
>>
>>  gnu/packages/perl.scm | 256 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 255 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> The patches LGTM, but I wonder if we should split some of these out to
> e.g. math.scm to prevent perl.scm from getting the python syndrome. WDYT?

In general I agree, but I don’t think these belong to math.scm, despite
their names.  These are really crypto things more than they are general
purpose math things.

I’ll move the following packages to crypto.scm:

   perl-math-random-isaac-xs
   perl-math-random-isaac
   perl-crypt-random-source
   perl-math-random-secure

Maybe it’s worth going through perl.scm before the next release and
redistribute some of the packages to other modules.

-- Ricardo