Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add perl-net-psyc.

[ng0]

ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Net::PSYC binary "psycion" requires perl-curses, which has been packaged
> and send for review.
>
> psycion is being bugfixed, it is functional but the server application
> it functions with needs to update the internal policies on how to treat
> native psyc clients. It's on the todo list and will be fixed
> eventually. As psycion is not the only part of Net::PSYC I find it okay
> to submit the entire perl-net-psyc now instead of waiting for psyced to
> have this policy fixed.
>
> There is psycmp3 which currently depends on MP3::List and the rxaudio
> shareware, it will be fixed to function with current free software
> equivalents of dependencies. It is deleted in a snippet phase for now
> and will be added back when it no longer "recommends non-free
> software".
>
> For another binary, I would have to package fam and SGI::FAM, this is
> reflected in the most recent commit:
> "moving bin/psycfilemonitor to contrib until somebody upgrades it to use
> inotify instead of fam". No one uses this binary currently, so it can be
> left where it is and will be updated in time.
>
> I created the file gnu/packages/psyc.scm because I am working on more
> applications: psyced, libpsyc, psyclpc and future releases. As they all
> circle around the psyced.org domain and the protocol PSYC, a dedicated
> file is the only logic choice. libpsyc will follow soon after this
> (perl-net-psyc) patch.
> I am working close with upstream to address issues on different
> operating systems. Upstream developers do very rarely release tarballs,
> in the case of Net::PSYC this git commit has more bugfixes than the
> latest tarball. As soon as the tarball catches up I will consider to
> change it, however this is a very small application collection, so a
> checkout will not take that much space on distributing servers.

Corrections appending to this:

"needs to update the internal policies on how to treat native psyc
clients" <- only when the welcome channel has secure set, a default
psyced without any changes does not complain about this.

The plan for the future is to run psycion with localhost psyced and
cadet (gnunet), not via the insecure internet
-- 
ng0
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