ASSP out of date

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 6, 2008, at 01:34, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Declare dependencies on those ports in the assp port. For example,  
>> if they are library dependencies, write:
>>
>> depends_lib-append port:p5-perl-ldap
>>
>> You can discover that the port p5-perl-ldap exists by typing "port  
>> search ldap" and looking through the results.
>
> Might as well just jump in and try to do the entire shebang.  There  
> are a lot more optional perl modules than I thought.  What is the  
> naming scheme for determining if they are available to ports?
>
> Here is the whole list:
>
> Net::DNS
> Compress::Zlib
> Digest::MD5
> Email::MIME::Modifier new
> Email::Valid
> File::ReadBackwards
> Mail::SPF new
> Mail::SPF::Query
> Mail::SRS
> Net::CIDR::Lite new
> Net::IP::Match::Regexp new
> Net::LDAP
> Net::SMTP new
> Net::SenderBase new
> Net::Syslog
> Sys::Syslog
> Tie::RDBM
> Time::HiRes
> Win32::Daemon

In general, lowercase it, prepend "p5-", and replace "::" with "-".  
So e.g. "Net::DNS" becomes "p5-net-dns".


> I would assume, the Win32::Daemon is not needed, and that many of  
> these may be available to the perl that ports already has in place,  
> but I am not sure.
>
> Is it correct that case is a non issue in something like `port  
> search net-dns`?  I see it finds it, but do I need to make sure  
> case is correct when I declare a dependency.  I will maintain the  
> case in the read me, but I would like to confirm that case in case  
> the read me is in error, if it matters of course.

"port search" should be case-insensitive, but you must declare  
dependencies with the same case as it says in the port.