Re: Perl packages, CPAN, locally installed .pm files

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 3) dpkg could be taught about CPAN (ouch...)

CPAN could be taught about dpkg.

First draft: make something that will take a list of existing files,
create a .deb from them, then re-install the package (to achievefor the
package database entries).

Second draft: take cpan and hack it up so that it installs via dpkg.

Third draft: abstract the install mechanism so that it can fall back to
install or cp if dpkg isn't around, and work with the CPAN folks to
make this a standard part of CPAN.

Fourth through sevnth drafts: deal with all the diferences in abstraction
between CPAN's release cycles and Debian's.

-- 
Raul


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