On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Daniel Pittman <dan...@rimspace.net> wrote: > > Octavian Râşniţă <orasn...@gmail.com> writes: > > G'day Octavian. > > > I've seen a recommendation on this list for Debian for running perl apps, > > and recently I started to use this distro. I've seen that I can install > > perl modules very hard under Debian if I use the CPAN shell. > > If you forgive me descending into opinion, I think you are approaching this > from a point of view that will make Debian, more or less, unhelpful to you. > Installing Debian, then putting everything else in place from CPAN (at least > system-wide) is going to cause problems in the longer term.
> There are a bunch of ways to do that, including dh-make-perl, dh-make, > CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb, and hand-packaging[1]. Then, shove those hand-made > packages into your own private Debian package repository, and it integrates > nicely into the tools and everything. I recently have completely tossed using Debian's perl packages because, while I do love Debian and all its package awesomeness, there simply wasn't the package lib*-perl support in stable/lenny and even testing/squeeze didn't have all the goods needed for a (what I think is) fairly regular Catalyst install. So my question then is: given you've presumably done this, which of your quoted solutions do you like best? I tried dh-make-perl many moons ago and gave up due to annoyances around following dependencies. Maybe CPP::Dist::Deb or something else solves that. I'm hoping local::lib + cpan + git solves this but curious how Debian-integrated solutions work too. Paul _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/