Tyler MacDonald wrote: [...]
- Use "CPAN::Mini" to create a local CPAN mirror quasy on the fly.The problem there is that it mirrors all of CPAN. A lot of bandwidth, not exactly a reuseable trick, unless CPAN::Mini has an option to mirror only packages X and Y, and all packages that depend on them?
Aside from the suggestion from Thomas Klausner, you could subclass CPAN::Mini to do just that. Add Module::Dependency and you should get the system up and running rather quickly. I fact, it would probably be a really good idea to make the result availlable on CPAN as CPAN::Mini::Something. (Ask the modules list for a good namespace choice or #perl or Ricardo Signes, the author of CPAN::Mini.)
Steffen
