[oi-dev] updating the perl stack on hipster

[Tim Mooney]

I would like to get both the perl runtime and the collection of perl
modules we ship updated to something recent.

I have packages for runtime/perl-530 (5.30.1) and several of our easiest
modules (those with no additional module dependencies) built for that
runtime.  Before I move on to the more difficult modules, I want to make
certain I'm on the right track.

I have several questions about the sun-solaris perl module collection, and
I'm hoping someone has some guidance.

- this is the only perl module we ship that is in the

 	/runtime/perl-NNN/module/sun-solaris

namespace, rather than

 	/library/perl-5/sun-solaris-NNN

   Anyone know why it's in the /runtime namespace, rather than the
   /library namespace?  I'm trying to understand why it's an
   exception that doesn't match any of the other module naming conventions.

- The component we currently ship (runtime/perl-522/module/sun-solaris)
   was not generated from the current oi-userland/perl/sun-solaris sources.
   The files in that directory are still set to perl-516 and the packaged
   component includes PerlGcc and Exacct, both of which appear to have
   been dropped from runtime/perl-522/module/sun-solaris.

   Was the source code moved somewhere else (I've looked and haven't found
   it) or were the changes that built runtime/perl-522/module/sun-solaris
   perhaps never committed?

I'm mainly trying to determine whether I should include Exacct when I
update the sun-solaris module, or drop it as the perl-522 has apparently
done.  PerlGcc should definitely be dropped.

- once I have sun-solaris and remaining modules packaged for perl-530,
   what's the easiest method (from the perspective of the core developers)
   to proceed?

     - a "meta" pull request, that references each individual pull request?
 	- make 530 and modules available before obsoleting/removing perl-524?
 	- how do we go about eventually getting rid of perl-522?

I know that long-term we don't want to be providing 3 versions of perl,
I'm just not certain what the transition process should look like.

Tim
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