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List:       perl-module-build
Subject:    Re: ExtUtils::Install dependency
From:       Michael G Schwern <schwern () pobox ! com>
Date:       2009-02-09 23:54:26
Message-ID: 4990C232.1070604 () pobox ! com
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demerphq wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>:
>> demerphq wrote:
>>>> I tracked down the problem inside ExtUtils::Install and fixed it.  It was a
>>>> tiny mistake.
>>>> https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41646
>>> Great, thanks. Have you uploaded the fix already or are you waiting on me?
>> No, I'd only do that if it were an emergency and I couldn't find you.
>>
>> PS  Where's the repo for EUI?  I feel like I've asked this before
> 
> Actually, these days i more or less consider the Perl one to be
> canonical. Any changes applied to the module in blead eventually get
> propagated and a CPAN release is made.  The only time that my private
> repo "leads" is when I am actively rolling a new package and I may do
> a beta release via CPAN before applying the patch to blead.
> 
> My (hazy) plans were/are to host the EUI git repo on the perl5 git
> repo host, so that committers can still apply changes as needed. But
> if you are going to go to github then I dont mind doing the same, in
> fact putting EUMM and EUI as separate branches in a single git repo
> makes a certain amount of sense to me. Depending on how much you hate
> the idea of multiple parentless commits in your repo I guess.

You could do both.  Make an EUI fork of the perl github repository.
http://github.com/github/perl/

Then people can fork off that and send you pull requests, which you push upstream.

And yeah, doing that with MakeMaker is tempting.


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