Re: CPAN recursive importer?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Eric Bavier <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2016-07-19 15:37, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> is there a recursive importer for CPAN that outputs all the
>> 'define-public I'd need to add to perl.scm ? I'm trying to package
>> spamassassin and it needs a *lot* of perl packages we don't have yet.
>
> No.  The CPAN importer hasn't been extended with recursive import.  
> Rekado is currently working on recursive import for CRAN that will 
> hopefully generalize to other importers.

I have a recursive CRAN importer here, but it doesn’t take many changes
to make this recursive importer generic, so that all importers can
benefit from it.

I have been meaning to continue working on this, but sadly I haven’t
found much time for the past weeks.  I’ll try to send new patches this
week, before my vacation.

~~ Ricardo