On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:16:06PM -0500, Duane Bronson wrote: > Is there a CPAN "distribution" just as there are Linux "distribution"s? > In other words, a collection of CPAN modules that one can install as a > bundle rather than having to use the perl -MCPAN install > "module_that_wont_compile"? ActiveState provides PPM which take a lot > of pain out of CPAN since so much stuff just doesn't compile on Windows, > but modules that don't compile are simply excluded from the PPM > database. Also, some Linux distributions have packages that bundle a > bunch of perl modules together, unfortunately, they only work with that > Linux distro. I would prefer a standard distribution of modules for all > platforms beyond the limited stuff that comes with the perl install.
I don't know of any CPAN distributions. However, if you are on an RPM based system, you might try my ovid program http://search.cpan.org/~gyepi/Ovid-0.06/ovid which recursively converts CPAN modules into rpms by following dependencies. It makes a normally painful and tedious task very easy. It's rpm specific because that's what I usually use, but that needn't be. -Gyepi _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
