Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 16:44:06 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: Will Andrews <will@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <20010104164406.A82823@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20010104143542.L481@tao.org.uk>; from joe@tao.org.uk on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:35:42PM %2B0000 References: <200101040011.f040B6i84505@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010104140442.G481@tao.org.uk> <20010104162313.A74304@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010104143542.L481@tao.org.uk>
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On Thu 2001-01-04 (14:35), Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:23:13PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > On Thu 2001-01-04 (14:04), Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:11:06PM -0800, Will Andrews wrote: > > > > will 2001/01/03 16:11:06 PST > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > . modules > > > > Log: > > > > Finish my four-day attempt to nearly sync with CPAN. I think I'm > > > > gonna get off my computer for awhile.. > > > > > > There's got to be a better way to organise these ports. Can't we > > > evoke the perl CPAN module in some clever way? > > > > Organise how? Their category? Or their dependencies? > > The CPAN module, as you probably know, is capable of downloading, > building and installing modules. We should really be using this > functionality in the perl module ports. Yes, it fetches a tarball, runs a common "make" command, and then a "make install" analogue command. Sounds a lot like what ports does. The only difference CPAN really makes is I think autonegotiating dependencies. If we can grab that, chuck it into the port, then we'll have an automatic CPAN module port creator. There's no reason to use two systems when an existing system can arbitrarily include the other. (CPAN also requires some interactive configuration, and may need other tweaks that are already performed to or by the ports system. It's somewhat unnecessary, I think.) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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