Michael Richardson wrote:
"Adam" == Adam Thompson<..hidden..> writes:Adam> YES!!!! Pretty much every distro has ready-made tools for Adam> turning CPAN distributions into native packages, this might Adam> eliminate a lot of the app packaging burden. -Adam Really? What are they called... I have looked for such things before for RPM and DEB, and never found the those tools.
(Copying the list since this'll probably of interest to several people.) Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/g-cpan.xml RPM: http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/ RPM: http://cpanspec.sourceforge.net/ Debian: http://packages.debian.org/sid/dh-make-perl Ubuntu: http://packages.debian.org/sid/dh-make-perl(also read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=packaging+guide+cpan&titlesearch=Titles)
-- -Adam Thompson <..hidden..> (204) 291-7950