Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't let this slow down your work, but: one thing I've been > itching for is a mechanism for CPAN installation to interoperate > with the Debian package manager. > > This is a pretty broad project, and to do it right you'd probably > have to get the CPAN and Diety folks talking to each other, just > to define the interface.
I've been thinking about this for a while, but never actually done anything... It seems to me that we could have an ExtUtils::MM_Debian which is almost the same as MM_Unix but helps to create a Debian package. It could either insert appropriate targets in the generated Makefile (make binary) or generate an appropriate debian/ directory (debian/rules binary). Normal users could generate local Debian packages or maintainers could generate official binary releases (like kernel-package can). It would be very nice to be able to do things like tar zxvvf File-Sync-0.05.tar.gz cd File-Sync-0.05 perl Makefile.PL debian/rules binary dpkg -i ../perl-file-sync_0.05-local.1_i386.deb and have a properly installed package. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Encryption renamed to Encode to avoid US regulation problems" - include/linux/wireless.h in Linux 2.0.30 kernel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .