On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:01 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I'm doing some Perl development and would like to port my code to MeeGo. How > is the integration of Perl and CPAN going to be handled? Will it resemble > openSUSE, Fedora/Red Hat, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo or something else?
A lot of perl in the various linux distributions comes directly from packagers packaging modules from CPAN. This means that they are put into packages native to that distro and in MeeGo's case that distro will be built on rpm packages. > > I'm currently on openSUSE, and I've found that I pretty much have to go > directly to CPAN for almost everything except the Perl interpreter itself. Is > that going to be true on MeeGo as well, or will there be a tighter > integration, like there is (or used to be) with Gentoo? CPAN is vast - there are tens of thousands of modules, and that is not even counting the Backpan or Darkpan. There is no way any single linux distribution can package all of CPAN, nor would it be a good idea, so whichever linux distribution you choose, you will have to complement its selection of perl packages with packages from CPAN, especially if you want something esoteric or new, like perl5i. Fortunately, the good news is that MeeGo should be able to install most pre-packages perl modules in the form of rpms with little or no modification. This means that MeeGo can use packages from both Fedora and SUSE for example. Debian uses debs as their package format, and while debian has more perl packages than any other linux distribution, you'll not be able to install debian perl packages as easily as you will rpms. Jeremiah _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
