> Surprisingly Active State maintains a Perl distribution for (RedHat) > Linux (or at least they did), and I believe a repository of PPMs as well.
And also Solaris and IBM AIX. I think the Linux Perl build and PPMs are likely to run on any reasonably normal Intel Linux, but not sure -- with the ActiveState Perl for that OS of course. Reminder - DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MIX a perl binary with an XS module built against a different compiler and perl binary! Much of CPAN is available in Debian .DEB's (What APT has instead of RPMs) already, binary built to match the Perl binary, for a wide variety of Architectures. Does RH RPM do the same? I haven't looked. > Probably something that could be piggybacked upon or an extension of the > cpan-testers system that's already in place. ... Yes, the Phalanx-100 will be providing a Bundle to their testers at least of the CPAN Top 100 and their dependencies. I don't think it's ready yet? > On a related note, a colleague recently asked if there was a tool > available to help automate the installation of a Perl program and its > corresponding modules on a target system (which could be Linux or > Windows), while requiring minimal user knowledge or intervention. > (could even use PAR to package it up ... Outside of Debian dh-make-perl + .DEB's and PAR and the ActiveState EXE-maker and CPANPLUS? More news on such would be of interest ... Bill Not speaking for the firm _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
