Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:04:24AM -0700, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: > The trouble with CPANs is that they are a moving target -- modules are > constantly updated, added, and removed[1]. http://cp2010-05an.barnyard.co.uk/ and all its date/time-stamped friends and relations aren't. A feature I ke

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Thalhammer
On May 20, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Leo Lapworth wrote: > http://beta.metacpan.org/ > https://github.com/szabgab/CPAN-Digger Thanks! MetaCPAN and CPAN::Digger are definitely part of the picture. But I see these more as adjunct features of a private CPAN. I think the meat of the problem lies in ho

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Thalhammer
On May 20, 2011, at 8:07 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > HTH, sorry I get a bit lost with some of your questions. No, this is very helpful. I think you've shown that I need to take a step back and look at the underlying problem. I'm not attempting to build an all-encompasing dependency managem

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread Leo Lapworth
Hi Jeffrey, On 20 May 2011 08:51, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: > NOTE: This was also posted on perlmonks at > http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=905878.  I'm trying to reach a wide audience, > so I'm posting it here too. > > Over the last few years, I've helped build private CPANs (DarkPANs or DPANs >

Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread David E. Wheeler
On May 20, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: > Once again, I'm faced with building another private CPAN. But this time, I > have an opportunity to build something that could have broader appeal in the > Perl community. In fact, the explicit goal is to produce an open source, > turnke

RFC: Private CPAN In A Box

2011-05-20 Thread Jeffrey Thalhammer
NOTE: This was also posted on perlmonks at http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=905878. I'm trying to reach a wide audience, so I'm posting it here too. Over the last few years, I've helped build private CPANs (DarkPANs or DPANs as brian d foy calls them) for 3 different organizations. Each time I co