RFE: p5-libwww-perl: please add the programs and the aliases

[jpo@…]

Description:
The current portfile doesn't install:

• the lwp programs (by adding the -n option to Makefile.PL) and
• the aliases HEAD, GET, and POST

Note: I complete addicted to the aliases (they are installed by default in Red Hat/Fedora linux distros),

Solution:

• Remove the -n option in order to having the programs lwp-* installed
• Add the --aliases option in order to having the aliases installed

Portfile changes:

< 	configure.pre_args-append    -n
>	configure.pre_args-append    --aliases

Notes:

• This perl module can also be updated as the latest version available in CPAN is the 5.830 (​http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl)
  

Diff: ​http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=libwww-perl-5.826&to=libwww-perl-5.830

[tobypeterson]

Just want to note: "HEAD" is completely out of the question, given that most Mac OS X systems are case-insensitive.

[jpo@…]

Replying to toby@…:

Just want to note: "HEAD" is completely out of the question, given that most Mac OS X systems are case-insensitive.

Would at least be possible to have them installed with a variant (eg: aliases) ? Note: I always (re)install my Macs with case-sensitive file-systems.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I would not be comfortable providing an option to install a binary called "HEAD" on Mac OS X that does not do what the binary called "head" is supposed to do, even in a variant. The breakage this would cause on a case-insensitive filesystem is just too severe.

[jpo@…]

Could at least the "-n" option be removed so that the lwp-* scripts can be installed?

tia, jpo

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I'm unsure why "-n" is in the portfile, but it has been there since the port was added in r5776. I removed it while updating p5-libwww-perl to the latest version in r72979 so these scripts should now be available.

FYI, see #27067 for an example of the problems that Mac users are still running into even today when installing LWP's "HEAD". So we do not want to be contributing to causing that.