MIME::Tools

[Kevin Spicer]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 21:26, Remco Barendse wrote:
> There is no Gentoo package!
Sorry, yes - I understand that.  My thinking was clear but my
nomenclature wasn't.  My question still stands, in that would there be
an issue (licensing or otherwise) with getting the MailScanner ebuild to
download and patch mime tools, then install it in the MailScanner lib,
so that it is used by MailScanner in preference to any other install of
MIME-Tools.
>
> Gentoo uses install scripts (ebuilds). The ebuild for MailScanner
> (which is still beta) simply fetches the source of MailScanner and
> installs the required perl packages from CPAN. Compile / installs the lot
> and all is done!
Okay, but there is an ebuild for mime-tools
(http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-perl;name=MIME-tools)
although this looks like it just installs the package from CPAN.  I'm
not clear on the relationship

> This is why I suggested re-submitting Julian's version to CPAN again,
> Gentoo has nothing to do with it. If it would be possible to install
> Julian's version from CPAN other architectures would benefit from it too
> by simply being able to install all required perl modules from CPAN
> instead of downloading and installing yourself!

In principle thats a good idea, but it is effectively forking
MIME-Tools, the question that raises is that if no-one can be found to
maintain MIME-Tools who is going to maintain this patched MIME-Tools?

>
> The Gentoo ebuild can be found here (pretty straightforward):
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=28381&action=view
> The Gentoo MailScanner development page is found here:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36060

Great, I hadn't found that (not that I had really looked that hard, I've
only been using Gentoo about two weeks and am still finding my way
around the various resources).  Thanks for the links.




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