Re: Bug#653133: ITP: libmath-random-mt-perl-perl -- Pure-Perl Mersenne-Twister module to generate random numbers

[Florent Angly <florent.angly@gmail.com>]

On 04/01/12 01:34, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> On 01/03/2012 03:43 PM, Florent Angly wrote:
> > Good question! I see three advantages of the Pure-perl approach:
> > 1/ It should work on all platforms, including the hurd-i386, where the
> > C/XS approach does not work
>
> The failure on hurd-i386 is trivial to fix (just include stdint.h like 
> on Linux).
>
> > 2/ Some Perl developers prefer to not rely on Perl modules that use C/XS
> > because this allows them to more easily make and deploy tarballs that
> > contain all dependencies
>
> Is this relevant for Debian?  I would assume to already use a local 
> version for development if they plan to bundle it later as well.
>
> > 3/ There is at least one method in the pure Perl version that the C/XS
> > approach does not have
>
> get_seed/set_seed?
Yes
> > 4/ I have interacted with the developer of the pure Perl module but have
> > had no such luck with the developer of the C/XS version. The pure Perl
> > version may hence be easier to maintain in Debian in the future.
>
> We had the same discussion for the Digest::SHA::PurePerl module[1] in 
> the past where several people raised the same point (pureperl 
> re-implementations are usually not needed on Debian).
Very well! It looks like my efforts will be better spent adding the new 
features to Math::Random::MT instead of packaging the Pure-perl version.
Regards,
Florent

> Regards,
> Ansgar
>
> [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/556386>