[gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[Daniel Westermann-Clark]

Hello,

Before opening a bug to track this, I wanted to get some feedback.

Currently dev-util/svk depends on >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.7.  The only
reason is that the version of Encode in 5.8.6 is too old.

As part of bug 116331, I suggested adding perl-core/Encode and
depending on that in dev-util/svk.  Is this something the perl herd
would consider?

Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[Michael Cummings]

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I'd prefer to unmask 5.8.7 instead if it were just up to me...especially
since 5.8.8 is looming in the next week or so according to nick


On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:10 -0500, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Before opening a bug to track this, I wanted to get some feedback.
> 
> Currently dev-util/svk depends on >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.7.  The only
> reason is that the version of Encode in 5.8.6 is too old.
> 
> As part of bug 116331, I suggested adding perl-core/Encode and
> depending on that in dev-util/svk.  Is this something the perl herd
> would consider?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Daniel Westermann-Clark

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Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[Daniel Westermann-Clark]

On 2006-01-10 10:14:16 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote:
> I'd prefer to unmask 5.8.7 instead if it were just up to
> me...especially since 5.8.8 is looming in the next week or so
> according to nick

Cool, I wasn't sure what the time frame for that might be.  I'm fine
with unmasking it locally for now.

Thanks,
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Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[Yuval Yaari]

Before you start unmasking, lest we forget that dev-util/svk is masked 
by itself, anyway.
Daniel, what's the big difference between Encode 2.08 and 2.10 (provided 
by perl 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 respectively, IIRC)?
Just wondering if the dependency is justified ;)

  --Yuval

Michael Cummings wrote:

>I'd prefer to unmask 5.8.7 instead if it were just up to me...especially
>since 5.8.8 is looming in the next week or so according to nick
>
>
>On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 10:10 -0500, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Before opening a bug to track this, I wanted to get some feedback.
>>
>>Currently dev-util/svk depends on >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.7.  The only
>>reason is that the version of Encode in 5.8.6 is too old.
>>
>>As part of bug 116331, I suggested adding perl-core/Encode and
>>depending on that in dev-util/svk.  Is this something the perl herd
>>would consider?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-- 
>>Daniel Westermann-Clark
>>    
>>

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Re: [gentoo-perl] Adding perl-core/Encode?

[Daniel Westermann-Clark]

On 2006-01-10 17:22:16 +0000, Yuval Yaari wrote:
> Before you start unmasking, lest we forget that dev-util/svk is
> masked by itself, anyway.

Yeah, I'm fine with unmasking perl-5.8.7 locally where I need SVK.
It's not a problem, I was more curious about perl-core policy than
anything else.

> Daniel, what's the big difference between Encode 2.08 and 2.10
> (provided by perl 5.8.6 and 5.8.7 respectively, IIRC)?

Mostly UTF-8 fixes, according to the Changes file.  I don't know
specifically why SVK claims it needs 2.10.

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