[64bit] Biber packaging questions

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

On 2013-06-16 06:38, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/15/2013 8:37 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> It's easy enough to provide bundle packages and the normal user would
>> never need to look at the individual distribution packages.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the need for bundle
> packages.  Take the example of biber.  I had to build a bunch of perl-*
> packages, and cygport figured out the dependencies among them and the
> dependencies of biber.  A user who installs biber automatically gets the
> necessary Perl modules without ever having to look at them in the
> chooser.  How would a bundle make this easier?
>
> A few of the perl-* packages are needed for building biber but not for
> using it.  I took care of these by setting DEPEND in the .cygport files.
>   So people who want to replicate the build will need to select the
> necessary packages [listed by cygport] in the chooser.  A bundle would
> admittedly make this easier.
>
> But there's nothing special about Perl modules here.  You always have to
> worry about build dependencies when you build a package from source. And
> we are not yet at the point where we are asking maintainers (or cygport)
> to create build-dependency packages.

I agree completely.  There is no need for bundles.


Yaakov