Re: [Pkgutil-users] patch to support non-standard VERSION entries

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 On Tue 27/07/10  3:34 PM , Peter Bonivart bon...@op... sent:
> I think it's starting to be a lot of different stuff being discussed
> in the same thread now. Maybe the package map and the software stacks
> deserve new threads started?

Good idea.

> I'm about to start using unit tests to increase the quality of the
> releases. This will likely require me to split off all but the
> simplest command line parsing from pkgutil and put basically
> everything in one or more perl modules.
> 
> This opens some possibilities regarding managing non-CSW stuff. It
> would be nice to have the compare subs in a perl module, we could have
> several complete, independent ones being selected by pkgutil.conf
> options. So the current CSW one is 100% intact and non-CSW stuff gets
> its own sub. I would like that kind of isolation instead of
> complicating the current stuff. Someone else could do a third variant
> which uses whatever method of doing the compare.
> 
> @Mark: are you comfortable with Subversion and Sourceforge? Do you
> want to be added to the project so you can start a new branch? You
> could try your stuff there, no need to send me patches.

This all sounds good, Peter.  My sourceforge username is 'cambridge'.

Modularising sounds like a great idea.  If I had a playpen I could write in support for some of the things I've been talking about, in a non-CSW module that you can test separately and then critique and/or modify as you see fit.  The problem will be that in order to do some of the things I'm suggesting, I'll need to add new command-line options, add options to pkgutil.conf, amend the catalogue format as well as provide different version comparison code.  Could this all be done in a module?

Thanks,
Mark.