Bug 82864
| Summary: | New Port: devel/p5-File-Random | ||||||
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| Product: | Ports & Packages | Reporter: | Aaron Dalton <aaron> | ||||
| Component: | Individual Port(s) | Assignee: | freebsd-ports-bugs (Nobody) <ports-bugs> | ||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||
| Version: | Latest | ||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||
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State Changed From-To: open->closed Port added, thanks! I added a requirement for perl version 5.6.0 or higher due to it's dependency on p5-Want. You can patch Makefile.PL the usual way, so it no longer tests for the dependencies that are not necessary for normal operation and only for testing to avoid the warnings, which our users would appreciate. |
This module simplifies the routine job of selecting a random file. (As you can find at CGI scripts). It's done, because it's boring (and errorprone), always to write something like my @files = (<*.*>); my $randf = $files[rand @files]; or opendir DIR, " ... " or die " ... "; my @files = grep {-f ...} (readdir DIR); closedir DIR; my $randf = $files[rand @files]; It also becomes very boring and very dangerous to write randomly selection for subdirectory searching with special check-routines. The simple standard job of selecting a random line from a file is implemented, too. ----- NOTE: This module has a large number of prerequisites used solely for testing. Since the ports system does not do the 'make test' step, I have omitted these prereqs in the Makefile. This means, however, that a number of warnings will be output at the 'perl Makefile.PL' stage. I do not know if there is a conventional way to suppress such warnings.