From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a perl package
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 20:08:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170316200828.3c0bce97@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDx-ti8N-6aqZnzNFaROwdvh4zEw=zpMNiTugsLDJQayUg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:42:38 +0100
Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to try to package this thing
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~ken/xls2csv-1.07/
>
> but
Short answer: The cpan importer is currently not equipped to handle
script-packages like this one.
>
> $ guix import cpan xls2csv
> guix import: error: failed to download meta-data for package 'xls2csv'
This is because "xls2csv" has no metadata on metacpan.org
> Efraim suggested me caps and colons, like the example in the manual
>
> guix import cpan Acme::Boolean
>
> But Acme-Boolean is a package.
>
> There's a folder named Acme containing a file with a namespace declaration
> in it
>
> My thing is not a package, it's a script, it has no namespace declaration,
> it's not in a folder
Is this common on CPAN? Do you think it would be useful to improve the
cpan importer to handle such things?
>
> How do I correctly call the importer on this ?
It can't work, yet. You'll need to declare the package manually.
Sorry.
`~Eric
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2017-03-16 11:42 a perl package Catonano
2017-03-17 1:08 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
2017-03-18 11:28 ` Catonano
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