Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:42:52 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Sure, I did not mean that you implement it just because I had this > idea about 10 years later than Bundles were implemented. > I just meant to address one of the concerned raised in the discussion. O

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps you should consider writing a CPAN::Mini extension that makes it easy to create and maintain a minicpan repository with the features that you want. Rather than mirroring just CPAN, I would imagine it would probably draw from Backpan a

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Adam Kennedy
David Golden wrote: On 10/31/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a way this is what Linux distros do or ActiveState does, but I would like to do it on CPAN level and still in source code. As a start I could possibly creat a minicpan for particular modules and their cross-tested version

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Adam Kennedy
For those that missed it's release let me also mention that "pip" is out now. http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Module-Plan-Base-0.04/lib/pip.pm This extends the Bundle idea to third party or arbitrary (such as backpan or whatever) modules. I wrote it because I wanted to install a specific set o

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread David Golden
On 10/31/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a way this is what Linux distros do or ActiveState does, but I would like to do it on CPAN level and still in source code. As a start I could possibly creat a minicpan for particular modules and their cross-tested versions. Does this make se

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-31 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/31/06, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 18:16, David Golden wrote: > > Bundle gives the option of either freezing a particular version (by > > specifying a distribution file) or else fully upgrading t

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:51:42 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What about adding a mechanism to PAUSE to map module/version pairs > to the bundles they are mentioned in? One could parse the most recent > bundle

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 08:51:42 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > What about adding a mechanism to PAUSE to map module/version pairs > to the bundles they are mentioned in? One could parse the most recent > bundles, extract the list of modules and the frozen version

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 10/31/06, Jonathan Rockway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 30 October 2006 18:16, David Golden wrote: > Bundle gives the option of either freezing a particular version (by > specifying a distribution file) or else fully upgrading to the > absolute latest version (by specifying a module).

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Rockway
On Monday 30 October 2006 18:16, David Golden wrote: > Bundle gives the option of either freezing a particular version (by > specifying a distribution file) or else fully upgrading to the > absolute latest version (by specifying a module). The problem I've experienced with this method is that auth

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread David Golden
On 10/30/06, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:23:09 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The mapping of flag to Module-Version pairs could actually reside on any > server with ftp or http access. CPAN.pm would be configured to use such

Re: CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:23:09 +0200, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > The mapping of flag to Module-Version pairs could actually reside on any > server with ftp or http access. CPAN.pm would be configured to use such > a URL. > What do you think? What you describe ca

CPAN.pm to install only flagged versions of modules

2006-10-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
I am not exactly sure this is the appropriate place to raise this idea but it relates very strongly to quality of CPAN modules. Occasionally new version of CPAN modules break code in applications. We cannot catch that, but we can at least catch cases when it breaks other CPAN modules. There are