[gentoo-perl] Catalyst in the main portage tree

[gentoo-perl] Catalyst in the main portage tree

[Michael Cummings]

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An intrepid gentoo user out there has been maintaining the Catalyst ebuilds 
all on their own in an external overlay. While I'm definitely interested, and 
initially said I'd like to add them to the tree, I know this adds a good deal 
of ebuilds to an already bulky tree. What say you folks? (And be nice, 
Michele's on the cc here :)
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Re: [gentoo-perl] Catalyst in the main portage tree

[Antoine Raillon]

Quoting Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:

> An intrepid gentoo user out there has been maintaining the Catalyst ebuilds
> all on their own in an external overlay. While I'm definitely interested, and
> initially said I'd like to add them to the tree, I know this adds a good deal
> of ebuilds to an already bulky tree. What say you folks? (And be nice,
> Michele's on the cc here :)

That would be great ;)

I had contacts with Michele before and we already dreamed about such a  
thing some times ago.. so if this is finally going to happen, i'd like  
to work on it =) (well, at least as soon as I've the rights to do so ;p)



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Re: [gentoo-perl] Catalyst in the main portage tree

[Michele Beltrame]

Hello!

The inclusion of Catalyst in the main Gentoo repository would be
fantastic! The overlay is currently made of 156 ebuilds; not necessarly
all of them have to make it into portage, but I think at least the ones
most widely used by Catalyst users should. So, probably at least
100-120. Yeah, I now it's a scary amount of ebuilds... ;-)

An important aspect will be the contact between the Catalyst community
and the Gentoo Perl herd - that is, between me and the future maintainer
of the ebuilds. Fact is in the Catalyst world things evolve sometimes
quickly, so new modules (=>ebuilds) are added, other are deprecated,
etc. It's now quite easy for me to keep the unofficial overlay
up-to-date, as I'm into the Catalyst community; when (if) it'll go into
portage, I guess I won't be the one to maintain the thing, but I'll be
sure to "haunt" the maintainer (Antoine? ;-)) when things need to be
changed.

Also, if you decide to make this thing I'll need to check all the
ebuilds as some are missing the LICENSE line, and some descriptions are
er... not so up-to-date. ;-)

I hope Catalyst will get this important chance to see its user base
grow!

Michele.


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