Developers of Sympa

[Luc Didry <address@concealed>]

jeudi 17 mai 2018, 11:28:22 CEST Luc Didry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to discuss about it during the hackathon, but why not talk
> right now?
> 
> Carton (https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton) is a Perl module dependency
> manager, allowing to install the exact versions of modules chosen by
> the developers. The modules are installed in a `local` directory.
> 
> Pros:
> - no more "What version of modules do you have" (if the installation
>   was properly made): just say what version of Sympa you have
> - a problem is caused by a module, that have a fix in a new version
>   (or has not the problem in a previous version)? No pb, the devs have
>   just to install the right version and push the new cpanfile.lock
> - you can create "features" like --without=oracle to not install the
>   dependencies for Oracle DB (https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile)
> 
> Cons:
> - the scripts need to be launched with `carton exec ./script --
>   --options` (maybe there is some workaround, I don't know)
>   I usually create wrapper scripts to avoid such long command.
> 
> What do you think? Is it worth looking into?

Thing I didn't thought about: the debian packaging might be more
complicate with Carton. Well, we'll see what racke will say about that
at the hackathon.
-- 
Luc
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