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From: Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/5] doc: INSTALL describe required deps for released versions
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 22:09:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200124220933.11970-4-e@yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200124220933.11970-1-e@yhbt.net>

1.3.0 isn't out, yet, and sometimes folks will rely on
INSTALL on our website while installing older versions,
so try to clarify that.
---
 INSTALL | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index f834b49f..2f7b9972 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -44,17 +44,25 @@ Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with:
                                    rpm: perl-URI
                                    (for HTML/Atom generation)
 
-Where "deb" indicates package names for Debian-derived distributions,
-"pkg" is for the FreeBSD package (maybe other common BSDs, too), and
-"rpm" is for RPM-based distributions (only known to work on Fedora).
-
-Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
+Plack and Date::Parse will be optional when v1.3.0 is released,
+but required for current and older releases:
 
 * Plack                            deb: libplack-perl
                                    pkg: p5-Plack
                                    rpm: perl-Plack, perl-Plack-Test,
                                    (for HTML/Atom generation)
 
+- Date::Parse                      deb: libtimedate-perl
+                                   pkg: p5-TimeDate
+                                   rpm: perl-TimeDate
+                                   (for broken, mostly historical emails)
+
+Where "deb" indicates package names for Debian-derived distributions,
+"pkg" is for the FreeBSD package (maybe other common BSDs, too), and
+"rpm" is for RPM-based distributions (only known to work on Fedora).
+
+Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
+
 - DBD::SQLite                      deb: libdbd-sqlite3-perl
                                    pkg: p5-DBD-SQLite
                                    rpm: perl-DBD-SQLite
@@ -77,11 +85,6 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
                                    (speeds up process spawning on Linux,
                                     see public-inbox-daemon(8))
 
-- Date::Parse                      deb: libtimedate-perl
-                                   pkg: p5-TimeDate
-                                   rpm: perl-TimeDate
-                                   (for broken, mostly historical emails)
-
 - Plack::Middleware::ReverseProxy  deb: libplack-middleware-reverseproxy-perl
                                    pkg: p5-Plack-Middleware-ReverseProxy
                                    rpm: perl-Plack-Middleware-ReverseProxy

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-24 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-24 22:09 [PATCH 0/5] build, website, and speling updates Eric Wong
2020-01-24 22:09 ` [PATCH 1/5] doc: avoid needless rebuilds of NEWS Eric Wong
2020-01-24 22:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] website: re-add top-level files Eric Wong
2020-01-24 22:09 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2020-01-24 22:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] website: omit technical/ and other subdirs Eric Wong
2020-01-24 22:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] spelling: favor `publicly' over `publically' Eric Wong

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