Why do we need to reinvent this wheel ? Most of the platforms out there have some binary packaging system. Solaris has their own, Linuxen have rpm/deb or whatever else they have. ActiveState with its binary Perl distributions have ppm and while that's not perfect we read that they are working on fixing the issues. As someone just mentioned the FreeBSD ports are kept very up-to-date.
I have just moved to Ubuntu and thought I will try to rely on apt-get to install my Perl modules. Quckly I hit a wall and could not install some of the basic modules. I did not have the time to investigate and check if I made a mistake or if there is a .deb repository with the latest CPAN modules for Ubuntu. I reverted to use CPAN.pm. BTW here is an article on how to build Debian packages of Perl modules: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/78 Anyway I think instead of trying to setup our own binary distribution we might want to make sure there are up to date repositories of Perl modules for the major distributions (and I am not talking only about Linux distributions here). It can be done by helping the people who already maintain some of these distributions or by setting up repositories such as debian.cpan.org, fedora.cpan.org, etc... Gabor
