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Dependencies & Packaging (Score:1)

by kane (2600)

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 conc
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  by excalibor (262) on 2006.08.15 14:13 (#49391) Homepage Journal
  
  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 :)
  
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