Personally, I'd like to see a way of executing a perl script/application in such a way that Perl runs off and grabs any required modules from CPAN (if the user has permission, of course).
Ben On 27 Jan 2011, at 21:05, Mark Meyer wrote: > Hello all, > > > > > > I need to include CPAN modules as part of our custom "application > stack". > > > > Currently we have a custom "application stack" that we distribute to our > customers via CD. The application stack is primarily JBoss in nature. > > > > This custom "application stack" is installed on to a target machine > after the customer installs our customized openSuSE 11.3 operating > system. > > > > The installation for the application stack, is done via a set of home > grown perl and bash scripts. > > > > What is the best way to install CPAN module(s) given the above? > > > > I was thinking that I would just include the tar gz files as part of the > application stack, then have my install scripts un-archive the modules > then call make. > > > > Is this too simple of an approach? > > > > Thank you for ANY suggestions, advice, best practices people wish to > offer. > > > > Please note: as mentioned above, the installation is perl based, so perl > is available (as part of openSuSE 11.3) along with various perl rpms. > > > > Thank you, > > mark > > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
