Re: [Stow-devel] Stow 2.0.x release requirements

[Kahlil Hodgson]

Hi Adam,

On 20/11/11 22:29, Adam Spiers wrote:
> Good news!  I've finished split the core code off into two new
> modules: Stow.pm and Stow/Util.pm.  I'm quite pleased that the process
> of separating the frontend from the backend seems to have resulted in
> some nice clean code - hope you agree when you see it.
> 
> Stow.pm provides a nice object-oriented interface, e.g.
> 
>     my $stow = new Stow(%$options);
> 
>     $stow->plan_unstow(@pkgs_to_unstow);
>     $stow->plan_stow  (@pkgs_to_stow);
> 
>     my @conflicts = $stow->get_conflicts;
>     $stow->process_tasks() unless @conflicts;
> 
> This enabled a *huge* reduction in the number of global variables.
> All the options and state (@Tasks, @Conflicts etc.) are now stored
> inside a Stow object instance.  This made for cleaner tests -
> reset_state() is now obsolete, since to reset state you simply
> instantiate a new Stow object.

Very Nice :-)

> After modifying the whole test suite to this new interface, I was able
> to introduce 'use strict' and 'use warnings' to all the tests, and
> 'make test' now passes 100% again :-)

Excellent!

> Latest code is available here:
> 
>     https://github.com/aspiers/stow/

Hope to get a chance to check it out soon.  A little busy with work ATM.


> and also adding Module::Build support so that we can easily make CPAN
> releases. 

There be dragons.  The older MakeMaker stuff may be easier.

> I'm hoping that this will co-exist peacefully with the
> autotools-based build system, although I'm currently puzzling over how
> to cope with installation of the modules.  Module::Build expects them
> to be under lib/, but if I put this in Makefile.am:
> 
>   pmdir = $(libdir)/perl5
>   nobase_pm_DATA = lib/Stow.pm lib/Stow/Util.pm
> 
> then autotools installs them to lib/perl5/lib/Stow* which is not
> right :-/

Getting the original autotools stuff to work really did my head in.  Had
to read a lot of documentation just to do something very simple.
I believe I may have forgotten almost everything I once new about the
autotools framework now :-(

Good Luck!

Kal