From: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
To: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a perl package
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ98PDyVYXR_yLQObQv7_bx=dvE2H-_x1795R8fzm=GUK1+zog@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170316200828.3c0bce97@openmailbox.org>
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2017-03-17 2:08 GMT+01:00 Eric Bavier <ericbavier@openmailbox.org>:
> 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.
>
Oh ok. Good to know. Thanks
>
> >
> > $ 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?
>
II don't know whether it's common or not. I don't know the first thing
about Perl
I was only evaluating a way to access some data stored in xsl files
>
> >
> > How do I correctly call the importer on this ?
>
> It can't work, yet. You'll need to declare the package manually.
> Sorry.
>
Ok. Thank you, Eric
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2017-03-16 11:42 a perl package Catonano
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