On May 24, 2011, at 9:18 AM, David Golden wrote: > I doubt it. I have plans for an "application installer" that will > pre-compute dependencies and reliably set up per-application lib > directories. Different applications could have different versions of > a module, but a single application will only have one version > available to it. > > This is not something that the CPAN clients are really designed to do > (though they can be made to do the right things with INSTALLBASE and > so on).
Well, are you using the same version ranges spec for the META.json file? Seems to me that this might result in a stand-alone library that, given prereqs, could determine what should be installed. Then the existing clients could use it too, eh? > A better specification and design for application dependencies and > installation will avoid the need to create N custom CPAN views as a > hack to make CPAN clients try to be application deployment tools. Yeah, that'll be nice. Best, David
