On 7/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There have been problems in the past with the configuration of Perl, > but I think things are now mostly settled on how to put Perl modules > in the GoboLinux tree. Cabal has been mentioned here before, but a > practical problem was that it maintains a database file that needs to > be edited globally (ie, outside its own /Programs entry). > > But having their own package management schemes this is a route that > all scripting languages are going for with their modules: Perl with > CPAN, Ruby with RubyGems, Python with Python Eggs, Lua with LuaRocks. > I'm CCing gobolinux-devel on this, as I think it's a worthwhile > discussion to see on which way we're going. It may be better to just > leave all those modules managed by their languages' managers, off the > main /Programs tree. I understand some people already do this for > RubyGems. >
I definitely agree that using the language module manager is the way to go. Installing into the main /Programs tree (ie /Programs/Ruby) has the big negative of losing modules when you upgrade the language. Workaround is installing in a 3rd location (/Files/RubyGems) but that requires extra configuration and some modules may not be relocatable(hopefully rare). -- Carlo J. Calica _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
