Greetings fellow Debianites,
Those of you who program in perl probably have a bunch of perl module source trees in /usr/src which you installed yourself. Although Debian developers have packaged the most essential of the Perl modules (the CGI ones, basically), with a couple hundred modules on the CPAN archive, there is a lot of work left undone here. It occurred to me today that the job might be easier than it looks. Perl module developers for the most part use the ExtUtils::MakeMaker utility to create their source tree. The ExtUtils module provides a rather standardized structure for perl module source code, for its compilation, test and installation. So all we would need to do is write our own version of MakeMaker that, in addition to the usual targets like "test" "dist" and "install", also automatically created rules for construction of a "deb" and "dsc" target. I propose that we get one person that knows a lot about Debian package development, one experienced Perl module publisher, and a few ok perl 5 OO programmers (like me :-) together to work this out. I'll gleefully entertain any e-mails to that respect. Shouldn't take too too long I would guess. Thanx. -- Brian S. Julin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
