[64bit] Biber packaging questions

[Achim Gratz]

Ken Brown writes:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see the need for bundle
> packages.

Certainly there is no need to bundle in many cases.  But if there is
(like with perl_vendor), I think it is easy.

>  Take the example of biber.  I had to build a bunch of perl-*
> packages, and cygport figured out the dependencies among them and the
> dependencies of biber.  A user who installs biber automatically gets
> the necessary Perl modules without ever having to look at them in the
> chooser.  How would a bundle make this easier?

Not at all for the runtime dependencies.

> A few of the perl-* packages are needed for building biber but not for
> using it.  I took care of these by setting DEPEND in the .cygport
> files. So people who want to replicate the build will need to select
> the necessary packages [listed by cygport] in the chooser.  A bundle
> would admittedly make this easier.

Yes, this is one of the things I use bundles for, although not for each
package.  I've just bundled all the distributions that I need for
building (but not at runtime) seperately, since those do not need to be
installed on machines that are not used for building.


Regards,
Achim.
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