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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • ... but fails horribly for me when simply trying to deploy an application. To explain this I'll focus on my prefered distribution, debian. Installing debian packages is simply, you get it from the standard repositories, or 3rdparty ones which laos relate to the current set of distributions (stable/testing/unstable). All dependencies *including* the C based APIs that might be required are resolved and simply installed (without asking a million questions, yes I know you can turn it off, but it's hard to find
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    • Tests are certainly necessary to run on every system for which the configuration is not a priori known.

      OS vendor package repositories circumvent this by saying “any package in this set of packages is known with a certain degree of confidence to play well well with any other package within the same set”. This is what release engineering is about: working out which set of packages works together stably.

      The CPAN has no provisions for any stable set of particular distributions. Instead, anything tha

      • The tests are important, everyone knows. One think that I want to try is to package Perl modules and keep the tests. Let's say in "/usr/share/t/package-name". Then it will be possible to run tests again when ever there will be a need. And this "need" should come up every time there is a new versions of a module as every other module that depends on the new one should be retested. At the end of the chain it includes our own "product" tests. This can not be done with CPAN shell, can it? Imagine that you start to have a problem with some production server, it will be possible to go to /usr/share/t/ run `prove -r .` and every piece of sw on that machine will be retested. That could cast some light.
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