On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:07:12PM +0200, Michael Koehne wrote: > Moin Fred Reimer, > > > So you select a package and when it was installed your system would run > > something like "perl -MCPAN -e 'install XML::XPath'" > > This is only half of the bill ;-( there are debian systems without > a C compiler, and they may need Perl modules also ;-) Even if it > sound heretic. ActiveState did it right for their Windows integration. > > They asked MakeMaker to become changed to produce a makefile, that > builds their binarie packages right out of the box. And they uploaded > their efforts (unlike the debian ignorants ;-) to CPAN, so we could > copy this aproach. We would only need to parse the XML of the PPM, > to produce a Debian compilant binary package.
I doesn't understand much... Did ActiveState MakeMaker download a compiler too or simply download the already compiled binaries from their sites. For people with Debian System that want to rebuild their system through CPAN, I think we could state that they will have a compiler installed at least (same assumptions for apt-get source -b ... make and necessary compilations tools must be installed). [delete related issues I already agree with...] > > Bye Michael > -- > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] UNA:+.? 'CED+2+:::Linux:2.2.14'UNZ+1' > http://www.xml-edifact.org/ CETERUM CENSEO MSDOS ESSE DELENDAM > -- -------------------------------* *------------------------- Fabien Niñoles / / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chevalier Servant de Sa Dame / / C15D FE9E BB35 F596 127F Veneur Gris par la Clef / / BF7D 8F1F DFC9 BCE0 9436 Chaton pour Debian / / http://www.tzone.org/~fabien --------------------------* *------------------------------
