Re: [PATCH] doc: INSTALL: note OpenBSD xapian-bindings-perl package

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@smrk.net>]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 19:35:09 +0000
Eric Wong wrote:

> The `xapian-bindings-perl' package contains the Xapian.pm
> SWIG bindings, but doesn't adhere to the existing convention
> of naming system packages after the Perl package name itself

I'm not familiar with the history of Xapian upstream or OpenBSD
packaging, but I'm guessing the main reason for the lack of "adherence"
here is that the package is being built together with the other language
bindings from the Xapian tarball (as opposed to, say, CPAN):

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/databases/xapian-bindings/Makefile

Tangentially related: I've taken this opportunity to review my (OpenBSD)
install script and found one other package I needed to install that
isn't mentioned in INSTALL, namely, p5-IO-Socket-SSL.

I didn't report it or give it too much thought at the time, as I was
under the impression that the INSTALL file wasn't quite up-to-date or
definitive, anyway (that impression being corroborated by my previous
experience installing public-inbox on Arch Linux: IIRC there were some
dependency surprises there, too, unfortunately I didn't keep any notes
then), but seeing you touching these parts now I figured I'd mention it.

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