Tels wrote:
On Saturday 28 January 2006 08:20, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
That is such an incredibly good idea. I've got plenty of bandwidth
to burn and I'm willing to set up debian.cpan.org.
Of course you must reliaze that, except for pure-perl modules and very
controlled environments, binary distributions are doomed to fail.
You simple cannot guess what libraries/compiler/system/kernel the user
has installed, unless you know the distribution and version *and* require
that the user never updates anything.
There is a reason that modules are compiled/linked against the target
system prior to installation, and there is also a reason to run the
tests: to assure that that step really worked.
FreeBSD might get away with that because the user will ever only install
their ports and they can make sure that they all play together. For
everything else, this becomes a maintanance nightmare and I wish to be no
part of that :)
Actually, this isn't so bad on Debian. The packaging system copes with
having dependencies on particular versions of other packages, and Debian
is VERY stable - libfoo just doesn't randomly change version.
--
David Cantrell
