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NAME

Perl::Dist::WiX::Repository - The repository that is used for Perl::Dist::WiX.

DESCRIPTION

This documentation describes the repository that Perl::Dist::WiX uses, and the branches that are currently being used as of September 2009.

REPOSITORY

Perl::Dist::WiX is currently on Adam Kennedy's "Open Repository" for CPAN authors, at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/

My understanding is that if you're a CPAN author, you can get commit access to it by asking Adam Kennedy for it. His e-mail address is adamk@cpan.org.

If you aren't a CPAN author and need commit access for Perl::Dist::WiX, please e-mail me with what you'd like to do (a patch would be nice) and I'll recommend to him that you be given access.

In any case, before committing anything more than minor changes to the Perl-Dist-WiX trunk or branches, please e-mail me. I'll probably say yes, but I need to know what you're planning to do, so that I don't accidentally step on your changes.

You may wish to work on your own branch, and then communicate with me to get it merged into the trunk, by doing:

svn cp http://svn.ali.as/trunk/Perl-Dist-WiX/ http://svn.ali.as/branches/Perl-Dist-WiX/<branch_name>

=head1 BRANCHES

The trunk is currently unstable at the moment, due to the fact that the code is in the process of changing from using Object::InsideOut and Object::Tiny to Moose.

Yes, I know Moose is "heavy" in the dependencies and initial loading time. The problems are that Object::Tiny is a little TOO tiny for what I need, and Object::InsideOut objects that contain other Object::InsideOut objects are very difficult to make Storable, which breaks checkpointing.

Plus, with Moose, I gain the ability to check constructor parameters better, the ability to extend logging, and the ability to factor out the XML generation and handling to another distribution in a sane matter.

So here are the 3 branches:

Trunk

Location: http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/Perl-Dist-WiX/

The trunk right now has 4 goals for October:

  1. 5.10.1 support.

  2. Moosification.

  3. Refactoring the WiX.pm and Installer.pm modules into smaller modules.

  4. Including the Perl::Dist::Asset and Perl::Dist::Util sets of modules into the Perl::Dist::WiX distribution.

Returning to stability is also important.

This has been completed, and changes from the "Vendorperl" branch below are expected to be merged soon.

July 2009 maintenance branch.

Location: http://svn.ali.as/cpan/branches/Perl-Dist-WiX/July-2009-maintenance/

This branch exists for the sole purpose of rebuilding Strawberry Perl 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 if there are major problems before October 2009. Changes on this branch are HIGHLY discouraged.

"Vendorperl"

Location: http://svn.ali.as/cpan/branches/Perl-Dist-WiX/vendorperl2/)

This is the current "work" branch" and includes code for having modules provided by Strawberry Perl install into a "vendor" directory, instead of using the "site" directories.

This code will be incorporated into the trunk soon.

AUTHORS

Curtis Jewell <csjewell@cpan.org>

SEE ALSO

http://ali.as/, http://csjewell.comyr.com/perl/

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

The license is the same as Perl::Dist::WiX. See that module for details.