Comments regarding perlbrew_0.16-1_i386.changes

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:26:23 +0000, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:

> I'm not that familiar with perl, but by looking at the package description,
> I'm wondering how perlbrew works.  Does it download stuff from external
> services?  In that case it should go to contrib.

There are others who actually know perlbrew better, but as a quick
reply:

perlbrew allows to download stuff to $HOME, just like wget, curl,
iceweasel, apt, or more perl-specific, libwww-perl, cpan, local::lib
etc.

As I understand it and from a quick look at the code it combines
downloading (wget), building (tar + make) and installing (make
install) perl development versions into a user's directory, and AFAIK
it's a popular tool among developers.

TBH, I never thought about putting it into contrib, and I still don't
see a reason for it :)


Thanks for your work on the NEW queue!


Cheers,
gregor

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