Re: best practice to use newer cpan modules on squeeze

2011-04-25 Thread Jim Green
On 20 April 2011 03:30, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 04/20/2011 05:55 AM, Jim Green wrote: >> >> Hello! >> in squeeze most perl modules are not up-to-date. for example >> libmoose-perl. >> >> In this case I include the sid repo and attempt to upgrade to sid >> version of libmoose but a hell of de

Re: best practice to use newer cpan modules on squeeze

2011-04-20 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/4/20 Jim Green > Hello! > what should be the best practice here right now? I use cpan command to > install some modules that are not available in debian. but how about > those not up-to-date ones? > What about using locallib+cpan or a chrooted+(cpan|sid) enviromment for your perl applicatio

Re: best practice to use newer cpan modules on squeeze

2011-04-20 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 04/20/2011 05:55 AM, Jim Green wrote: Hello! in squeeze most perl modules are not up-to-date. for example libmoose-perl. In this case I include the sid repo and attempt to upgrade to sid version of libmoose but a hell of dependency begins. I am afraid if insist on upgrading this module, lots

Re: best practice to use newer cpan modules on squeeze

2011-04-20 Thread adris
little more work, but a lot of people will benefit from it. For development and testing I tend to have a local CPAN installation directory ~/perl5. CPAN can be tweaked to install all it's modules in that users home directory, if run with that user. Then I do not need to have root privileg

best practice to use newer cpan modules on squeeze

2011-04-19 Thread Jim Green
Hello! in squeeze most perl modules are not up-to-date. for example libmoose-perl. In this case I include the sid repo and attempt to upgrade to sid version of libmoose but a hell of dependency begins. I am afraid if insist on upgrading this module, lots of perl core module/perl would be upgraded

CPAN modules

1998-08-03 Thread tko
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ..

Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Count me in. I used to maintain the CGI modules, so I have some experience there ;-). My only concern is the amount of time I have, but I'll be glad to help where I can. manoj -- "If we fail to draw the line in Vietnam we may find ourselves compelled to draw a defense lin

Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Carey Evans
"Brian S. Julin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > 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. We'd really just

Re: All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Jim Pick
Brian S. Julin wrote: > 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. This is a really cool idea. One concern is th

All those Perl CPAN Modules...

1997-05-31 Thread Brian S. Julin
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