I just uploaded to the CPAN a script of mine, CPAN-perlpatch2svn. Soon on your nearest CPAN mirror. It's intended to populate a Subversion repository with bleadperl patches. It's also (to my knowledge) the first code on CPAN that deals with Subversion (that's why I choose to put it on CPAN instead of keeping it on my website : if it can be found via the search interface, it may be useful in the future to other module authors. Code reuse, yay.)
There are, however, a couple of annoyances when using a Subversion working copy that holds the perl sources :
As of bleadperl @18039, the installation process of perl corrupts the Subversion working copy, because it creates spurious .svn directories.This means that I'll have to patch MakeMaker and the makefiles. Investigating...Similarly, make distclean removes too much files, including a few files in the .svn directories, thus corrupting the working copy.
Re:-Dmksymlinks
rafael on 2002-10-21T08:35:10
That's obviously a solution, but using -Dmksymlinks should not be required (especially for systems that don't have symlinks.)
