Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl

jamie writes "chromatic has a great post today on the conflict between OS distributions and CPAN's installations of perl modules, along with some suggestions for how to start resolving this maddening problem: '[Though Debian has] made plenty of CPAN distributions available as .debs, I have to configure my CPAN client myself, and it does not work with the system package manager. There's no reason it couldn't. Imagine that the system Perl 5 included in the default package... had a CPAN client configured appropriately. It has selected an appropriate mirror (or uses the redirector). It knows about installation paths. It understands how to use LWP...' The idea of providing guidelines to distros for how to safely package modules is a great one. Could modules request (a modified?) test suite be run after distro-installation? Could Module::Build help module authors and distro maintainers establish the rules somehow?"

Comments

Re:May I Be the First To Say This

[MadMartigan2001]

Fuck perl.

... is one of the coolest languages ever! There, fixed that for ya.

Re:May I Be the First To Say This

[FooAtWFU]

Fuck PHP.

FTFY.

Re:May I Be the First To Say This

[lena_10326]

For your next trick, I'll bet you'll tell us that emacs < vi

Fuck emacs.

How much

[Anonymous Coward]

How much Perl packages would a Perl packager package if a Perl packager could package Perl?

Re:How much

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know, but I do know that Peter Python packaged a peck of CPickled peppers.

Re:How much

[grantek]

Isn't it something like "Yo dawg, I heard you like to package Perl so I put a Perl packager in your Perl package so you can package Perl while you're packaging Perl packages" ?

Re:Ah, the age old question

[gringer]

oh, damn, somebody's already asked that....

Re:May I Be the First To Say This

[jonaskoelker]

For your next trick, I'll bet you'll tell us that emacs > vi

Fuck 'em both; ed is The One True Editor.

Re:Not to troll

[Zero__Kelvin]

"And what about all these guys that are bashing Perl every time it gets mentioned in /.?"

They probably know the difference between a language that was designed using sound software engineering principles (Python) and one that was thrown together piecemeal by a madman, albeit a mad genius (as Larry Wall himself freely admits.)