Re: VCP status

* Barrie Slaymaker:

>> I'm investigating whether it makes sense to package VCP for Debian
>> (mainly to use Chia-liang Kao's CVS-to-Subversion converters).  It
>> seems that VCP has been pulled from CPAN, though.  What are your plans
>> with this Perl module?
>
> We pulled it from CPAN because almost nobody gets it to install that way
> due to the large number of dependancies and so we could encourage using
> the (forthcoming) binary executables.

The dependencies aren't such a huge problem (as long as they are free
software).  Debian is quite good at dealing with them.

> To use clkao's converters, you probably want to "p4 sync" from
> public.perforce.com:1666 //public/revml/... (you can skip the dist/
> and product/ directories if you like, this is a development
> directory and we haven't cut over to a final directory structure for
> "1.0" release yet) and build it from there, but you will need a
> *lot* of dependancies (see Makefile.PL).

Sorry, I can't run Perforce (I'm one of those free software
zealots...).  Is a Subversion or CVS mirror available?