[HEADSUP] bsd.perl.mk import coming soon

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 09:12:26AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:50:39AM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:57:50AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 06:40:23PM +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:30:51AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:33:42PM +0000, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > > > > > The main feature of the change will be to allow USE_PERL5= 5.8.0+ (and
> > > > > > similarly for USE_PERL5_RUN, USE_PERL5_BUILD, PERL_CONFIGURE and
> > > > > > PERL_MODBUILD).  As a side-effect, the remaining few stragglers that
> > > > > > attempt to keep perl5.003 going will be dropped.  (Other committers
> > > > > > have also been removing that code).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Great! A big thank you to all who helped get this work done :)
> > > > > 
> > > > Let me chime in and thank everyone, especially Gabor for writing and
> > > > Mark for testing this.  This was a long needed feature that gets rid of
> > > > a huge number of cumbersome workarounds.  Thanks a lot!
> > > 
> > > An idea for next summer: PERL_RUN_DEPENDS=	Foo::Bar
> > > (I know I've done by best for this one, and it failed here and there)
> > 
> > That would really be a killer feature. Applicable to other areas
> > like CPAN-like repos (rubygems, pypi, pear/pecl, etc.)
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/87318. It came
> into bsd.port.mk once, but it was removed after people complained
> too much.

What I am thinking about is not having to specify which port to
install from. A module name should be enough. Some kind of
(CPAN-based?) registry is needed for this to work.