#1809 time-hires-pm581 update

[Kevin Horton]

This is a much newer version of the time-hires-pm perlmod. It has
been tested on OS X 10.3.8 using Apple's perl 5.8.1.

This pm is no longer maintained, so I will take it over as maintainer.

What should I do about the other varieties of this pm for other perl
versions? It would almost certainly be OK with perl 5.8.4 or 5.8.6,
but I don't intend to install those perl versions just to test this pm.

[Kevin Horton]

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Added the .info file.

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[Daniel Macks]

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We seem to be dropping support for 5.8.4. Perl5.8.6 comes
with Time::HiRes 1.65 so I would suspect your 1.66 will be
fine there. You could use variants to consolidate multiple
perlversions into a single .info file. Hmm...it appears a
lot has changed since the existing time-hires-pm581 package
was written:

* The perl core libs were moved, meaning packages that
supply the same module as in core no longer conflict with or
replace perl core itself.

* The manpages for perl modules were shuffled into sesparate
dirs for each perl version, meaning foo-pmXXX and for-pmXXY
no longer conflict with or replace each other.
Unfortunately, the automatic scripts generated by Type:perl
don't yet deal with this so you have to write your own
InstallScript.

See libxml-pm.info for an example of a multi-perlversion
package written for the latest filesystem layout.

[Kevin Horton]

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OK, here is the .info file in the newer format. Be aware that I am very new
at both packaging, and perl. So there is a very good chance that
something is messed up here.

Fink validate done on both the .info and the .deb.

[Kevin Horton]

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I was a bit to hasty with the cut and paste from the libxml-pm.info, and
inadvertently left the tests disabled. This version fixes that.

Note: I used the InstallScript as-is from libxml-pm.info. I'm not convinced
that it is all needed, but all the info2 format PMs I looked at have the same
one, and it seems to work.

Note 2: The current time-hires.pm info file has a PostInstScript that I don't
know the reason for. I left the code at the bottom of the .info file, but
commented it out. Please advise whether I need a PostInstScript or not.

[Daniel Macks]

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perlXXX-core is all that is needed to ensure that "the perlX.X.X interpretter exists"...no need for system-perlXXX any more.

I agree that the PostInst is no longer needed...I think it was needed back before fink had the modern language-variant system.

I get:
Warning: Length of package description exceeds 45 characters. (time-hires-pm581.info)
Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again!

maybe "High-resolution timer functions" would suffice?

(5.8.1 5.8.6) is the standard pair for 10.3 and 10.4 users and we can test it on those systems...if someone needs something special, that person can test it and say "yo, 5.8.4 works too".

You can make the InstallScript even simpler (and clearer and less typo-prone IMO) if you like. Given that you want "the standard perl process, but move the manpages", you can say exactly that:

InstallScript: <<
%{default_script}
mv %i/share/man %i/lib/perl5/%type_raw[perl]
<<

Up to you.

[Kevin Horton]

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Thanks for the comments. I didn't know I could do an
InstallScript like that. I updated the .info file to
incorporate your suggestions.

[Kevin Horton]