Re: Re: libwww-perl split up

Gisle,
	Thank you for doing this. I am hoping that it will make the suite 
easier to manage both for you and for linux distributions.

	We have however hit a couple of niggles whilst working on the packaging 
of the new version for Debian. First of all the File::Listing module 
does not have any clear copyright statement. Of course in the past we 
took the copyright for the package as a whole, so there was not an issue 
for individual files as long as the status or the whole package was 
clear. Presumably some other files will have the same issue. A simple 
statement in a reply would do for now, though obviously it would be 
ideal if all the new modules could be done to the same standard.

	The second issue is that we have no clear time line for when you expect 
to resolve the IPv6 incompatibility.

Nicholas

	

On -10/01/37 20:59, Gisle Aas wrote:
> 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
>>