Bug 37992

Summary:	New submission for HTTP::Request::Form Perl module
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bob Bell <bbell>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bbell
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Ebuild for HTTP::Request::Form

Description Bob Bell 2004-01-12 11:48:22 UTC

This is an ebuild candidate for the Perl module HTTP::Request::Form, which does not currently have an ebuild.  I tested this out and it works.

Comment 1 Bob Bell 2004-01-12 11:49:52 UTC

Created attachment 23689 [details]
Ebuild for HTTP::Request::Form

Comment 2 Eric Sammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-12 17:26:12 UTC

Bob:

Gentoo's current policy is that if a perl module doesn't fill a dependency for an application, we can't add it to portage. This is so that the portage tree doesn't grow wildly (and to try and limit maintenance overhead).

Does HTTP::Request::Form fill a dep of something in portage?

(For perl modules that don't have ebuilds, g-cpan.pl will create ebuilds on the fly and install them from CPAN.)

Either way, thanks the submission.

Comment 3 Bob Bell 2004-01-14 06:46:46 UTC

No, this isn't necessary for anything that currently has an ebuild.  I use it for my own development.  I have an mail filter that involves querying a webserver to provide supplemental information in the mail, and some programs that automatically walk-through Wal-Mart and Sam's Club photo centers in order to download pictures.  However, neither have an ebuild, and I'm not sure that either ever will, at least not in the official gentoo distribution (maybe in a local overlay here at work).

Comment 4 Eric Sammer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-15 02:52:19 UTC

Ok. In that case, g-cpan.pl should do the trick for installing this for you.

Closing bug.