On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 15:06 -0500, Adam Thompson wrote:
> > From: Ian Goodacre [mailto:ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz]
> >
> > Is there a problem with current distribution methods?
>
> Yes.
...
Good points, well said and nothing I disagree with.
Whatever happens, I hope it will be no harder to install
> I don't see the tarballs as going away either.
Well, no. But CPAN is also a distribution mechanism for tarballs; from
what I've seen (granted, I've never written a CPAN module) it looks like
you can either target CPAN primarily and spin off tarballs from that, or
structure your project so it
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Adam Thompson wrote:
>> From: Ian Goodacre [mailto:ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz]
>>
>> Is there a problem with current distribution methods?
>
> Yes.
>
> Somewhere north of 80% of potential users will not install software if it
> isn't available in either their distrib
> From: Ian Goodacre [mailto:ian.gooda...@xtra.co.nz]
>
> Is there a problem with current distribution methods?
Yes.
Somewhere north of 80% of potential users will not install software if it
isn't available in either their distribution's repository (ports tree,
apt/yum/that-thing-SLES-uses, por
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 12:27 -0800, Chris Travers wrote:
> What do folks think about moving to CPAN as a distribution mechanism
> for 2.0 and perhaps only seeing Sourceforge as for bundle
> distributions?
I think CPAN works very well for distribution of Perl modules to be
installed to the standard
Michael Richardson wrote:
>> "Adam" == Adam Thompson writes:
> Adam> YES Pretty much every distro has ready-made tools for
> Adam> turning CPAN distributions into native packages, this might
> Adam> eliminate a lot of the app packaging burden. -Adam
>
> Really? What are
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Subject: [Ledger-smb-devel] Another question re: 2.0
Sent: Mar 7, 2010 14:27
What do folks think about moving to CPAN as a distribution mechanism
for 2.0 and perhaps only seeing Sourceforge as for bundle
distributions?
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
What do folks think about moving to CPAN as a distribution mechanism
for 2.0 and perhaps only seeing Sourceforge as for bundle
distributions?
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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