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Robert Helgesson 7ca412a2fa nix-generate-from-cpan: fix core module detection
This makes the detection of core modules a bit more robust by checking
the module inclusion in a pure Perl interpreter. This ensures that any
extra path in the `nix-generate-from-cpan` script's `PERL5LIB` does not
affect the generated package expression.
2016-05-18 20:39:44 +02:00
Robert Helgesson c90c30dd1e nix-generate-from-cpan: large refactor
This commit includes a substantial refactoring of
`nix-generate-from-cpan`. This somewhat simplifies the code through the
use of the CPAN::Meta module while adding the following features:

 - The program now takes an optional maintainer on the command line that
   is subsequently added into the generated package.

 - An attempt is made to convert the license specified inside the
   META.json or META.yaml file to a license in `stdenv.lib.licenses`.

 - An attempt is made to disambiguate attribute names of packages whose
   name is a reserved word in Nix.

 - Write logging output using Log::Log4perl.

 - Print module RSS feed URL. The RSS feed, hosted by MetaCPAN, can be
   used to track updates to the module.
2016-01-23 18:54:05 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 97a2de297e Fix various Perl packages
Perl 5.20 removed some modules, in particular Module::Pluggable. So
now other modules need to get it from CPAN.

http://hydra.nixos.org/build/17450281
2014-11-25 00:29:48 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra 15c1ca9d21 nix-generate-from-cpan: Hack to handle non-UTF-8 META.yml files 2013-06-16 18:34:32 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra 629daa2102 Rewrite the CPAN generator to Perl
Also:

- It's now installable by doing "nix-env -i nix-generate-from-cpan".

- It maps dependencies to the correct attribute (e.g. HTML::HeadParser
  is mapped to HTMLParser).

- It automatically selects buildPerlPackage or buildPerlModule.

- It's documented in the manual.
2013-06-13 15:56:23 +02:00