Anyone wants to program some perl?

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi everyone,

if you want to get involved with Debian and TeX Live packaging
and programming, here is a first idea:

target: write a perl function that takes a TeX Live package name and 
  a root directory as input, and generates a list of collapsed 
  directories and files for that pacakge.

Example: We are building the package texlive-latex-base, it contains
  the following TeX Live packages: ae, amscls, amsmath ,...
  For example look at amsmath: Get the file list from the tpm
	my $tlp = $tlpdb->get_package("package-name");
	my @runfiles = $tlp->runfiles;
	my @docfiles = $tlp->docfiles;
  That gives for amsmath
  docfiles:
   texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/00LICENSE.txt
   texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.pdf
   texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/amscd.pdf
   ...
  runfiles:
   texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty
   texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amscd.sty
   texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty
   ...

  and the output should be:
  -----
  amsmath: lppl
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsmath/*
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/*
  -----

  For amsrefs for exampls:
  ------
  amsrefs: lppl1.3
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/amsrefs/*
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bib/amsrefs/*
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/amsrefs/*
  /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsrefs/*
  -----


Warning:
- the actual files should be checked
- if there are files that do NOT belong to this package in a directory,
  it CANNOT be collapsed to *, but every file needs to be listed!!!
- location of the doc files might e different, check the current TL 2011 
  packages in Debian

Hint:
THere is already code for that in tpm2licenses in tex-common/trunk/scripts,
you only need to extract the collapse functions and write a bit of stuff
around it.

Best wishes

Norbert
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