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Re: cpan to deb program



Joey Hess wrote:
> With the recent MakeMaker hackery in the new perl, it seems it should be
> quite easy to make a program that, given a module name, downloads it
> from cpan and automagically makes it into a deb.
> 
> I'll probably take a look at doing this in the near future.

I've reluctantly decided that the proper way to do it is as an extention
to the CPAN module itself. Either a CPAN::Debian, or bolted right into
it, I dunno. I'm fiddling with CPAN.pm now -- such blecherous code..

-- 
see shy jo



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