No Perl/CPAN

[James Wright]

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[Robert Reiz]

Thanks for suggesting new package managers. We put it on the list.

[Timo Sulg]

It should soon to be reviewed: https://github.com/versioneye/versioneye-core/pull/45

[Glenn Proctor]

Any updates on Perl support (specifically CPAN)? We have a significant chunk of legacy Perl which won't be going away any time soon, and it would be great to have that covered by VersionEye as well as our Python/Ruby/JS stuff.

[Robert Reiz]

I would say we will have Perl support in the next couple weeks.

[Glenn Proctor]

That's very encouraging. We look forward to testing the Perl support.

[Hari Sekhon]

Me too, curious to see how this will look as there is no Pip requirements or Maven pom equivalent standard to test (I personally script usage of a cpan-requirements.txt file, one package per line with standard hash commented lines).

[Timo Sulg]

There's Cpanfile for dependencies - https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Module-CPANfile/lib/cpanfile.pod

[Hari Sekhon]

I used cpanm for all my builds but don't recall seeing cpanfile (or perhaps I just didn't register it as a standard so skipped over it, whereas I Travis CI forced me use cpanm).

I ended up emulating pip's requirements.txt which seems simpler, but will switch to this format instead to make use of this if this new versioneye functionality.

Look forward to testing the new functionality, thanks for working on this!

[Glenn Proctor]

Hi all

Any updates on the status of Perl support, and what it will require (cpanfiles or whatever)?

Glenn.

[Timo Sulg]

Hi, I think it would be some point next week in production .

Today i finished refactoring old implementation of CpanCrawler, but there's still a couple of things to do. But we've other high priority tasks before we can tackle the last remaining part.

Overall it'll require cpanfiles as it's only official looking specification i was able to find: https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile we can also add specialized parser based on customer requirements as long it has a way to resolve name of dependency and required version.

Cheers

[Glenn Proctor]

Excellent, thanks for the update. cpanfiles looks like the best approach.

Glenn.

[Robert Reiz]

This is done. VersionEye can parse Cpanfile and even META.json and META.yml. See here: https://blog.versioneye.com/2017/07/12/perl-support/