Re: commit-email.pl getting harder to install

Karl Fogel wrote:
>
> Revision 2390 made tools/hook-scripts/commit-email.pl depend on
> Storable.pm, which is not shipped with the Perl distribution.

It'll be with 5.8.0 when it comes out.

>
> If you download Storable.pm and try to install it, you'll discover
> that it depends on Test::More, which also does not appear to be in the
> default Perl dist, and which I cannot find anywhere on the CPAN
> mirrors (started at www.perl.com and went from there).

You can find it in

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AM/AMS/

Here's an index of all the modules.

http://www.cpan.org/modules/01modules.index.html

>
> Perhaps it is either obsolete or *very* bleeding-edge? :-)

Storable's been around since 1997.

I originally wanted to use Data::Dumper to achieve a deep copy of
an object, but it required an eval and some other trickery that
in the end Storable's dclone accomplished with one call.

>
> In any case, as far as I can tell, commit-email.pl is now rather
> problematic. Blair, can you please tell me that I'm doing something
> bozotic :-), or alternatively, can you find a way to make
> commit-email.pl less fragile?

Use CPAN :) I'd rather use Storable for cleanliness of the code,
but if enough people have an issue with it, I'll look into using
Data::Dumper. It's not as ideal, but Data::Dumper has been
shipping with Perl forever.

Best,
Blair

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Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com>
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