Developers of Sympa

["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 05/26/2018 10:27 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> hello racke,
> 
>> Hello Marc,
> 
>> in fact Task::Sympa module on CPAN is from 2014, so it should be updated
>> soon at any rate.
>> Can you do that please?
> 
> i would be pleased to do that. i didn't previously because i expected some
> feedbacks from the packagers
> 
> https://github.com/sympa-community/p5-task-sympa/blob/master/Makefile.PL
> 
> gives the current cpan version as comment. and some diverges a lot.

Marc,

that doesn't matter as the Sympa dependencies should be the *minimum* version 
which works
with Sympa.

We want to allow people to use Sympa even if they have outdated 
installations. As we have no system
like Debian testing, new releases can be everything from not passing tests, 
incompatible with other
modules or containing serious bugs.

> 
> i produced it with
> 
> https://github.com/sympa-community/p5-task-sympa/blob/master/scripts/get_dependency_list
> 
> so if you ask me to again, i'll release the Task::Sympa with the current
> state of the repository. aside, i have some questions to all you guys:
> 
> * can we have a policy for the versions to use for the dependencies ?
>   as possible examples:
>   * the version provided in debian stable|testing
>   * the latest cpan version
>   * manually maintained

The *minimum* version, so manually maintained.

> 
> * as we now have cpanfile
>   * is Task::Sympa still relevant ?
>   * if so, shouldn't we maintain Task::Sympa via cpanfile ?
>   * are there tools for that ?
>     (the way i see it, carton is a tool for people who don't expect to
>      release anything on cpan)
> 

IMHO not longer relevant and carton is a tool to ensure that the development 
environment and
the production one share exactly the same CPAN version (amongst other things 
of course).

Regards
        Racke

> regards,
> marc
> 


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