On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Doug MacEachern wrote:
> a Bundle::ApacheTest would be nice, but let's face it, not everybody is
> familar with CPAN.pm and it does not always work without extra effort.
> and keep in mind some people using Apache-Test are not perl programmers at
> all. in particular, if the perl_framework tests uncover a bug in apache,
> an apache developer (who is not a perl programmer) should be able to
> easily get the httpd-test/perl_framework up and running to reproduce the
> problem. so what i think would be really helpful would be to have a
> Bundle::ApacheTest that works with CPAN.pm, but also can be run in a way
> where it downloads the latest .tar.gz for each dependency and repackages
> them into one big tarball with a toplevel Makefile.PL. for example:
> % perl httpd-test/perl_framework/Apache-Test/lib/Bundle::ApacheTest.pm
>
> download all .tar.gz required by Bundle::ApacheTest via CPAN.pm
>
> mkdir httpd-test-bundle
>
> cd httpd-test-bundle
>
> tar -zxf ../downloaded-cpan-packages/*.tar.gz
>
> cat <<EOF > Makefile.PL
> use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
> WriteMakefile(NAME => 'httpd-test-bundle', VERSION => '0.01');
> EOF
>
> perl Makefile.PL && make dist
>
> scp httpd-test-bundle-0.01.tar.gz somehere-on-apache.org
>
> then for the users, they only need to download the big tarball and run:
> % tar -zxf httpd-test-bundle-0.01.tar.gz
> % cd httpd-test-bundle-0.01
> % perl Makefile.PL && make install
>
> the script or modules to do this could of course work against any Bundle::
> any takers? or other ideas to make getting setup as simply as possible?
You've already uploaded something on your site, does it do everything
you've described above? Or is it just a hardcoded copy of everything that
you've retrieved manually?
I was thinking about implementing this, but I didn't know you needed it
yesterday.
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