Re: [mh] still trying

[Lieven H. <li...@li...>]

Hello Eloy,

thanks for your input.

Regarding the:

> I have never understood why the MisterHouse source code contains Perl
> modules that can be easily found on, and installed from, CPAN. Perhaps
> it is to accommodate installations of MisterHouse on Windows where it is
> not easy to do something like an "apt-get install”?

I think that all platforms have a perl module packager available, or they have mcpan, so that ‘should’ be OK.

I agree with you that adding ‘foreign' modules to the MisterHouse codebase is not really the way to go…

Kind regards,
 Lieven.

> Op 15 sep. 2016, om 23:41 heeft Eloy Paris <pe...@ch...> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 10:38:02PM +0200, Lieven Hollevoet wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> We already touched this a few time on the list: how will we handle
>> the modules that are packed with MisterHouse? Does it make sense to
>> keep a separate mini-cpan inside the MisterHouse distribution? Should
>> we try to fetch as much as possible from CPAN at installation time?
>> That of course holds the risk of having new module versions that
>> cause problems. Or do we just update modules in our distribution when
>> problems pop up?
>> 
>> In general: what are your ideas on how to solve this?
> 
> Personally, I would prefer if we document well all the standard Perl
> modules that are required to run MisterHouse and let the user take care
> of providing them. The user could choose to install the Perl modules via
> apt-get (e.g. apt-get install libhtml-form-perl, etc.), via CPAN, or
> whatever.
> 
> When I first installed MisterHouse I think I followed some documentation
> that had me install the required Perl modules. If I remember correctly,
> there were specific instructions for Ubuntu so it was easy for me to get
> all the required modules.
> 
> I have never understood why the MisterHouse source code contains Perl
> modules that can be easily found on, and installed from, CPAN. Perhaps
> it is to accommodate installations of MisterHouse on Windows where it is
> not easy to do something like an "apt-get install"?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Eloy Paris.-
>