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  • Packaging is still a hot item in perl5 land. A few projects have adopted the 'boxed' idea, where they ship a version of their project, along with all the depenendencies needed to bootstrap it and start working.

    This is of course not the type of thing you want to install as your production platform, but gets you testing/developing rather fast.

    Two such projects are Catalyst [catalystframework.org] with their Cat-in-a-Box [handelframework.com] and CPANPLUS [cpan.org] with the cpanp-boxed [cpan.org] tool that is shipped for bootstrapping purposes

    As far as packaging is concerned, CPANPLUS is actually able to help now. For example, for debian, there is now the option to build debian packages automatically while you install them, or use a custom apt repository that's updated straight from CPAN. Take a look at http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/ [cpan.org] for details on how to use it.

    • Thanks for the link to Debian CPAN packaging! I guess it will work on Ubuntu as well...

      I'll give it a shot A.S.A.P.!

      --
      $ pugs -M6 -e 'say "use 6 :)"'
      use 6 :)

    • Another worthwhile (and production-worthy) effort is the Shadowcat Catalyst installer [shadowcatsystems.co.uk], a script that sets up some magic and then drives CPAN.pm (and ppm, if necessary) programmatically so that you end up with a working Catalyst without any questions asked. Just fire and forget.

      I used to moan, bitch and gripe about Catalyst installation – but no more, ever since Matt published that script.

      Aside from that: debian.pkgs.cpan.org [cpan.org] is very cool.

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