Re: State of the Art wrt XML/XSL.
Moin Fred Reimer,
> So you select a package and when it was installed your system would run
> something like "perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::XPath'"
This is only half of the bill ;-( there are debian systems without
a C compiler, and they may need Perl modules also ;-) Even if it
sound heretic. ActiveState did it right for their Windows integration.
They asked MakeMaker to become changed to produce a makefile, that
builds their binarie packages right out of the box. And they uploaded
their efforts (unlike the debian ignorants ;-) to CPAN, so we could
copy this aproach. We would only need to parse the XML of the PPM,
to produce a Debian compilant binary package.
> Hmm, now I understand the complaints even more. Seems like I can't
> install a debconf "module" under Perl 5.6.0 because there IS NO DEBCONF
> MODULE!
exactly - so Debian is effectivly useless for Perl development. Any
real Perl author, will need his own Perl - what a duplication of
efforts, just because of some ignorants.
> Why would someone want to hard code pathnames into the Makefile
> instead of providing a Makefile.pl just like everyone else?
the code is braindead and totaly useless as its undocumented - is'nt it ;-(
> Is there anything that can be done to use Perl in the standard way
> if it's going to be used at all for package maintenance or other
> system functions?
A Perl maintained by autobundle has to be called $HOME/perl-5.6 or
/opt/perl-5.6. The later can be found by 'apt' on
deb ftp://ftp.copyleft.de/pub/project/debian potato-i386/
Bye Michael
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