Re: VCP status

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:49:00AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm investigating whether it makes sense to package VCP for Debian
> (mainly to use Chia-liang Kao's CVS-to-Subversion converters).  It
> seems that VCP has been pulled from CPAN, though.  What are your plans
> with this Perl module?

We pulled it from CPAN because almost nobody gets it to install that way
due to the large number of dependancies and so we could encourage using
the (forthcoming) binary executables.  To use clkao's converters, you
probably want to "p4 sync" from public.perforce.com:1666
//public/revml/... (you can skip the dist/ and product/ directories if
you like, this is a development directory and we haven't cut over to a final
directory structure for "1.0" release yet) and build it from there, but
you will need a *lot* of dependancies (see Makefile.PL).  clkao's
probably the best person to ask for guidance.

We are building and testing platform-specific binaries, see the
product/... directories in the repository and ask Alan Teague if those
are of interest.

Thanks,

Barrie