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authorEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>2020-01-24 22:09:31 +0000
committerEric Wong <e@yhbt.net>2020-01-25 09:00:52 +0000
commit4f97044263ce6ff0428476149b6de3177156a185 (patch)
treee98fc722298207acdbd4155503a81d000882937b /INSTALL
parentd62d98b9a7f502da65673f0b83a6d06312c060d9 (diff)
downloadpublic-inbox-4f97044263ce6ff0428476149b6de3177156a185.tar.gz
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
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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