Re: Ports page - about to be reset - patches weclome!

Can somebody briefly explain the criteria for appending a '+patches' to
the Perl version? e.g. as far as I can tell, every Debian perl
package has patches (from looking at the debian package Changelog
files), but only one is flagged as such.

I submitted a pull request with Ubuntu added to the page, but
because of my lack of understanding I omitted '+patches' on any version.

- Mark

On 3/26/11 10:09 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cleaned out all the dead links from the ports page, which is what we
> went live with, but the content is WAY out of date, it is also not in
> a easy to review format and a lot of it is just not useful or points
> to very old versions of Perl and I have no way of knowing if that is
> the latest/only version for an OS - or just out of date information.
>
> I'm keeping a copy of the page as an archive so the information is not
> lost, but have now basically started again:
>
> http://leo.cuckoo.org/cpan/ports/ is a preview
>
> I've broken out each OS into a separate TT file
> https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg/tree/master/src/ports/oses/ - this
> was the best I could come up with, I want standard layout for some
> stuff (versions / links) but with the ability to add free format HTML
> for specific requirements.
>
> The template for an OS is:
> https://github.com/perlorg/cpanorg/blob/master/src/ports/oses/_template.tt_data
>
> If there is an OS that is missing (remember I said I'd started again,
> this means most of them are!) and you know the details please submit a
> patch / email it to me.
>
> I will be looking to go live with this sooner rather than later - and
> going forward as people submit patches I'll keep updating it.
>
> http://www.cpan.org/src/ is then next on my list to clean up, but
> there are some technical limitations at the moment.
>
> Cheers
>
> Leo