From owner-cvs-all Thu Jan 4 7: 0:23 2001 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 07:00:19 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F298F37B402; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 07:00:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 03FB93230; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:00:19 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:00:18 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Will Andrews , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules Message-ID: <20010104150018.M481@tao.org.uk> References: <200101040011.f040B6i84505@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010104140442.G481@tao.org.uk> <20010104162313.A74304@mithrandr.moria.org> <20010104143542.L481@tao.org.uk> <20010104164406.A82823@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010104164406.A82823@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0200 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 04:44:06PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > 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.) What I'm more thinking about is that at the moment it's not possible to install a p5- port unless it exists and N(p5-ports) < N(cpan modules). Can't we find a way of doing away with _all- the p5-ports and replacing them with some cpan magic? Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message