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On Jan 14 20:39, Achim Gratz wrote: > > I've finally managed to produce a working Perl including debuginfo via > cygport. I have not yet ported most patches from Reini's 5.18.2 test > version or checked whether they are still necessary. I've also > experimented with splitting off a perl_base package (I've used the > selection of files from openSUSE) and the result looks quite nice (if > you compare with the existing packages, keep in mind they are Bzip2 > compressed and thus a bit larger for the same unpacked size): > > 5,1M 5. Jan 21:23 perl-5.18.4-1.tar.xz > 1,1M 5. Jan 21:23 perl_base-5.18.4-1.tar.xz > 5,5M 5. Jan 21:23 perl_manpages-5.18.4-1.tar.xz > 1,6M 5. Jan 21:23 perl_pods-5.18.4-1.tar.xz > > Separating the Pods into their own package doesn't appear to have much > of an advantage, but who knows what it'll be good for. In any case it > looks like a bare-bones Perl might easily fit into Base. I'm not sure > yet what to do with the other modules that are bundled into Perl as > released, I might actually give them their own packages since I think > some should be updated anyway. > > Seeing that swapping out Perl will also trigger the rebuild of many more > packages, I think by the time we get to this 5.22 might already be > released (in May 2015). I'd probably prefer to jump straight to that > version and then take it from there. Thanks for looking into that, Achim. I really appreciate it, even though I'm not exactly a perl hacker :) If 5.22 is due in May already, it's probably a good idea to wait. However, why does a bump from 5.x to 5.y require a rebuild of other packages? Is the perl stuff backward incompatible from one minor version to the other?!? Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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