Hello! I am not sure whether this is the right group, so I am really sorry in case it isn't. Also my English isn't very good, so I hope you forgive me any mistakes.
With perlbrew and cpanm wouldn't it make sense to create an URI like: cpan:Foo::Module or maybe cpan:Foo-Module, possibly with an optional version part, like cpan:Foo-Module-0.1 (or cpan:Author/Foo-Module-5). The browser could associate it with cpanm, which would install it using just a single click. Of course such an URI could also be an interface for other applications. Between the click and installation one could have an info screen that tells you about stuff like dependencies that need to be installed or whether it is likely to work on your platform (cpantesters), etc. A package manager, like apt or rpm could also use this URI and install a binary. This would be especially nice for applications. Some time ago I read about a Java Web Start-like module for Perl. I think this could be used in a similar way. Wouldn't be great if one could link something like cpan:Marc_Lehmann/Deliantra-Client-2.11/deliantra in a web site, email or via IRC or IMs and it would do everything that's necessary to play it? This is really just an idea, possibly nonsense. I just think a little specification of something like that would possibly cause some nice projects to come to existence. Greetings, Christian
