[Kolab-devel] [issue3224] perl-kolab has been restructured and needs to be tested

[Gunnar Wrobel]

New submission from Gunnar Wrobel <p at rdus.de>:

I restructured perl-kolab and it needs some testing before the next release.

Rationale for restructuring:

 - Perl scripts should be installed using ExtUtils::MakeMaker which is the 
   packaging system provided by perl
 - We had many perl based scripts in kolabd and this is by no means a 
   perl-package
 - The perl scripts were still using the dist_conf approach for access to
   system variables. The scripts should retrieve such information from a
   configuration file rather than having them hardcoded during build time.

All perl scripts have now been moved into perl-kolab and fixed for the new
install location. I tested the functionality of each on a CVS based server and
they seem to work. Nevertheless I suggest testing them again before the next
release.

In the long term we might consider splitting the perl-scripts out of perl-kolab
into a separate package. Thomas and Richard both disliked having the scripts in
perl-kolab. On the other hand I don't really see why this hurts because the
library part in perl-kolab is really only used by these scripts and I don't
think there is a reason to install perl-kolab on anything else than a Kolab-Server.

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assignedto: thomas
messages: 17485
nosy: bernhard, khruskowski, rbos, thomas, wilde, wrobel
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: perl-kolab has been restructured and needs to be tested
topic: server
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