On Apr 14, 2009, at 18:41, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
What would be nice is some automatic wrapper for all the various
extensions
to languages (ruby, perl, python, etc) where you just say "I need
xyz from
CPAN/gem" and port can handle it, and hence use it for
dependencies. Of course,
base has no support for such hence the need to wrap such things in
full-blown
ports, otherwise how do we know what is installed and and what
version? It
would still run the install through the proper tool, but also keep
track of
what is installed so it can be managed (and easily upgraded,
activated,
etc), but wouldn't need to be a complete port. Instead it could be
some
form of listing in a table someplace, for any extensions which are
easily
installed.
In lieu of this, a tool to mostly-automatically convert from those
package managers to a MacPorts port is useful, c.f. cpan2port for
converting CPAN perl modules to Portfiles.
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