[OE-core] $50 bounty for an OE recipe for libfilesys-smbclient-perl. seriously.

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Burton, Ross wrote:

> On 20 December 2016 at 18:32, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>         really, i just don't have time to mess with this anymore and
>       i'm more than happy to pay someone $50 CAD (interac transfer)
>       to provide me with a proper recipe and essential patches for
>       the perl module Filesys-SmbClient-3.2 here:
>
>
> FWIW I had a quick look at this.  I'm certainly no perl guru and can
> barely understand it, but it does *so much* wrong that if you really
> need this then it would be easier to just rewrite the makefile.pl
> from scratch.  Once you remove the hunting for the headers in the
> wrong place, it then invokes an autoconf script...  which needs to
> be passed the right options.
>
> Do you really need this module?  It's not been updated for many
> years, so surely there's something better.

  i have been *told* that this module is necessary, i don't know
enough about the context to know what for. if there is something more
recent that has the same capability, then i'd love to see it.

  until then, $50 is still up for grabs.

rday

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