On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 20:13 +0100, Lyle wrote: > Hi All, > Here is the outline:- > > http://perl.bristolbath.org/projects/cpan.html > > Aim:- "Bring CPAN to the masses... and make Perl scripts easy to > install" - or something along those lines :) > > Please take the time out to read through, then hit me with all your > criticism ;)
There are some wrinkles with CPAN but i'm not sure it needs to be remade , to me it sounds like you are suggesting some sort of CPAN::Simple A lot of the issues you mention could be solved by encouraging hosting providers to pre configure cpan with PREFIX set to some where in the users home directory. Maybe a toolkit to help roll out these settings might solve most of the problems ? i.e make it so easy that it happens One of the reasons i use dreamhost is because its almost become a standard configuration in that most of its quirks are documented through the sheer volume of other users on the same platform. This goes a long way to mitagating the problems of shared hosting ( although it provides many others of its own ;) and other providers could benefit from some kind of standardisation. Perl certified hosting would be a pretty cool idea , but only if we can call it Poosticks. Its not quite as exciting but its very doable and you won't need to herd so many cats. Toodle-pip Amias -- Freelance programming , consultancy and hardware builds blog.amias.org.uk * www.amias.org.uk * www.ecotalk.org.uk _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
