Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: virtual/perl-Filter

[Kent Fredric]

On 8 July 2014 06:59, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:

> # Filter never was part of core Perl, no idea why we have a virtual.
> # It was moved from perl-core to dev-perl and the virtual will be
> # removed. Please depend on dev-perl/Filter directly.
> virtual/perl-Filter
>

https://metacpan.org/release/Filter

*Filter::Util::Call <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::Util::Call>* - Perl
Source Filter Utility Module  <--- only module part of this dist shipped
with perl
 *Filter::Util::Exec <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::Util::Exec>* - exec
source filter
 *Filter::cpp <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::cpp>* - cpp source filter
 *Filter::decrypt <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::decrypt>* - template
for a decrypt source filter
 *Filter::exec <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::exec>* - exec source
filter
 *Filter::sh <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::sh>* - sh source filter
 *Filter::tee <https://metacpan.org/pod/Filter::tee>* - tee source filter

corelist -a Filter::Util::Call  | grep -E 'released|5.(16|18|20)'

Filter::Util::Call was first released with perl v5.7.3
  v5.16.0    1.40
  v5.16.1    1.40
  v5.16.2    1.40
  v5.16.3    1.40
  v5.18.0    1.45
  v5.18.1    1.45
  v5.18.2    1.45
  v5.20.0    1.49


This is an unfortunately messy edge case that exposes the "cpan
distribution" <=> "perl module" disconnect we have to deal a lot with.

This is annoying, because anything that uses *other* than
filter::util::call *must* install the CPAN version.  But anything that uses
Filter::Util::Call on its own can do so from Perl itself.

Its also annoying because the "cpan distribution" that ships that module is
called "Filter" on CPAN, but "Filter-Util-Call" in perl/cpan/*

-- 
Kent

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