On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 12:28 -0600, Frank Wiles wrote: > What I have always done is package my applications as if they > are CPAN modules using ExtUtils::MakeMaker or in more recent > days Module::Build. Never had a problem with it, but it probably > isn't suited to distributing apps to novice users.
We do the same sort of thing here, with an automated build script that builds apache, mod_perl, and our modules from source. You can see some work on generalizing that for others to use here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/matchstick - Perrin