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• Re: Fixing CPAN: Part 1 - Toolchain Communication (Score:2)

  by davorg (18)

  And if we ever want anyone that doesn't know Perl (who are by definition not competent with Perl) to install a Perl-based application from CPAN, we need to fix that.

  Is that really what we want to be aiming at? I mean, I think that CPAN (and CPANPLUS) is great, but the only people who know about it are Perl developers. It's great for us that the same method works (for some value of "works") on every platform that we use, but for the average user (or the average adminstrator of a computer with Perl instal
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by kane (2600)

    I'd love to see a way to make it easier for CPAN authors (or perhaps CPAN itself - or another project attached to CPAN) to create packages that can be used to install CPAN modules using packaging mechanisms that are native to various operating systems - whether it's rpm, deb, sis or something else.

    Take a look at CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb [cpan.org] and debian.pkgs.cpan.org [cpan.org] and you'll see you and I are on the same page :)

    It still needs some more hacking to make it easier to write new C::D::* modules, but the concept works :)
    • Re: Fixing CPAN: Part 1 - Toolchain Communication (Score:2)

      by davorg (18) <dave@dave.org.uk> on 2007.03.09 4:23 (#53609) Homepage Journal

      Ooh. Very cool.

      Now, of course, personally I don't care at all about Debian packages. Where is CPANPLUS::Dist::RPM.

      Or have I just volunteered myself?

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