Re: libwww-perl split up

libwww-perl-6.00 has now been uploaded to CPAN.  I decided not to
split out the scripts to their own distribution.  The release notes
says:

Unbundled all modules not in the LWP:: namespace from the libwww-perl
distribution.  The new broken out CPAN distribtions are File-Listing,
HTML-Form, HTTP-Cookies, HTTP-Daemon, HTTP-Date, HTTP-Message, HTTP-Negotiate,
Net-HTTP, and WWW-RobotRules.  libwww-perl-6 require these to be installed.

This release also drops the unmaintained lwp-rget script from the distribution.

Perl v5.8.8 or better is now required.  For older versions of perl please stay
with libwww-perl-5.837.

For https://... default to verified connections with require IO::Socket::SSL
and Mozilla::CA modules to be installed.  Old behaviour can be requested by
setting the PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME environment variable to 0.  The
LWP::UserAgent got new ssl_opts method to control this as well.

Support internationalized URLs from command line scripts and in the proxy
environment variables.

The lwp-dump script got new --request option.

The lwp-request script got new -E option, contributed by Tony Finch.

Protocol handlers and callbacks can raise HTTP::Response objects as exceptions.
This will abort the current request and make LWP return the raised response.

--Gisle


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 22:07, Gisle Aas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Mark Overmeer recently contacted me and convinced me that this might
> be a good time to split up libwww-perl into smaller distribution that
> can more easily be maintained.  My plan is to start releasing the
> pieces over the next weeks.  I've prepared the division at the
> libwww-perl github repo, so if anybody is interested you can take a
> look over there.  The modules that will go into the various
> distributions is listed below.  Is there anything you want to change
> with this plan this please let me know.
>
> The split out pieces will start out with 6.00 as version number.
>
> The planned LWP-scripts dist seems to be problematic since there is no
> module in this dist.  I don't know how to state a dependency on a
> non-module dist, so perhaps this needs to merge back into the
> libwww-perl dist or I need to add a dummy module to that dist.
>
> Regards,
> Gisle
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------->%-----------------------
> LWP-MediaTypes
>   lib/LWP/media.types
>   lib/LWP/MediaTypes.pm
>
>   Deps: <none>
>
> HTTP-Date
>   lib/HTTP/Date.pm
>
>   Deps: (Time-Zone)
>
> WWW-RobotRules
>   lib/WWW/RobotRules/AnyDBM_File.pm
>   lib/WWW/RobotRules/DB_File.pm
>   lib/WWW/RobotRules.pm
>
>   Deps: URI
>
> File-Listing
>   lib/File/Listing.pm
>
>   Deps: HTTP-Date
>
> HTTP-Message
>   lib/HTTP/Config.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Headers/Auth.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Headers/ETag.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Headers/Util.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Headers.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Message.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Request.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Response.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Status.pm
>
>   Deps: URI HTTP-Date MIME-Base64 HTML-Parser Encode-Locale
> LWP-MediaTypes Compress
>
> HTTP-Negotiate
>   lib/HTTP/Negotiate.pm
>
>   Deps: HTTP-Message
>
> HTTP-Cookies
>   lib/HTTP/Cookies/Microsoft.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Cookies/Netscape.pm
>   lib/HTTP/Cookies.pm
>
>   Deps: HTTP-Date HTTP-Message
>
> HTTP-Daemon
>   lib/HTTP/Daemon.pm
>
>   Deps: HTTP-Date HTTP-Message LWP-MediaTypes
>
> HTML-Form
>   lib/HTML/Form.pm
>
>   Deps: URI HTML-Parser HTTP-Message
>
> Net-HTTP
>   lib/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm
>   lib/Net/HTTP/NB.pm
>   lib/Net/HTTP.pm
>   lib/Net/HTTPS.pm
>
>   Deps: Compress-Raw-Zlib IO-Compress-Gzip (IO-Socket-SSL)
>
> LWP-UserAgent
>   lib/LWP/Authen/Basic.pm
>   lib/LWP/Authen/Digest.pm
>   lib/LWP/Authen/Ntlm.pm
>   lib/LWP/ConnCache.pm
>   lib/LWP/Debug/TraceHTTP.pm
>   lib/LWP/Debug.pm
>   lib/LWP/DebugFile.pm
>   lib/LWP/MemberMixin.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/cpan.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/data.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/file.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/GHTTP.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/gopher.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/http10.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/https.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/https10.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/loopback.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/mailto.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/nntp.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol/nogo.pm
>   lib/LWP/Protocol.pm
>   lib/LWP/RobotUA.pm
>   lib/LWP/Simple.pm
>   lib/LWP/UserAgent.pm
>
>   Deps: Digest-MD5 Encode-Locale HTML-Parser HTTP-Cookies HTTP-Date
> HTTP-Message HTTP-Negotiate LWP-MediaTypes Net-HTTP WWW-RobotRules
>
> LWP-scripts
>   bin/lwp-download
>   bin/lwp-dump
>   bin/lwp-mirror
>   bin/lwp-request
>
>   Deps: HTTP-Date URI HTTP-Message Encode-Locale LWP-UserAgent LWP-MediaTypes
>
> libwww-perl
>   lib/Bundle/LWP.pm
>   lib/LWP.pm
>
>   Deps: LWP-UserAgent LWP-scripts HTML-Form
>