On Oct 21, 2011, at 4:36 PM, ext Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> 1) Source package build-depends on, random example, perl-SSLeay, which
>> is a perl extension that's built with native code
>
> That is really a corner case. Most perl modules don't use XS (what you
> refer to as "native code") and the perl-SSLeay module has been a
> particular problem over the years because it has some pretty gnarly
> dependencies. You won't see this problem with most of the perl modules
> in MeeGo for example.
Unfortunately corner cases matter, too. "Most" is not enough, if there are
hundreds or thousands of packets to compile.
Native extensions are used by various scripts. I think I had enough trouble
solving a similar case with an xml parser module... and the result was the
policy-based mapping of perl in SB2, that I tried to explain in the previous
message.
Lauri
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