At 12:55 AM -0400 6/5/02, Josh Wilmes wrote:
>Good stuff. Sounds halfway between CPAN.pm and activestate's ppm. See
>also debian's apt-get.
>
>Which brings me to my pet peeve- I think it's time to start doing binary
>packaging in CPAN, for those who don't want to bother with compilation.
>
>That has interesting implications for how we deal with paths, but still, I
>think it's worthwhile.
The biggest issues with binaries are relocatability (which is a
problem on some OSes), build options, compiler compatibility, and
size.
Size is the biggest obvious problem--there are a lot of modules with
C code, and object code is generally larger than the C it came from,
often by an order of magnitude or two. Multiply that by the potential
number of OS/compiler/perl build options and you get a number
that's.... rather large.
The rest are just complicated icing on the cake.
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Dan
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