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Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl

Posted by samzenpus on from the dress-it-up dept.

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?"

5 of 130 comments (clear)

  1. Re:May I Be the First To Say This by MadMartigan2001 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck perl.

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

  2. Re:May I Be the First To Say This by lena_10326 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

    Fuck emacs.

    --
    Camping on quad since 1996.
  3. How much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:How much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. Re:How much by grantek · · Score: 4, Funny

      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" ?