[PLUG] pdxLinux.org is down for the moment.

Wil Cooley wcooley at nakedape.cc
Tue Nov 2 20:30:47 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:40 -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Wil Cooley wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 08:39 -0800, Colin Kuskie wrote:
> >
> >> Use the CPAN shell:
> >
> > Bzzzt!  Not on my boxes you don't!  It's all happily packaged and 
> > installed now.
> 
> I'm at the point of just punting when it comes to applications that 
> require a gazillion unpackaged Perl modules. RT is a good (or bad, 
> depending on your mood) example.

I gave up on RT and found Roundup (http://roundup.sf.net), which sold me
immediately because of the demo mode.  Plus, I generally prefer Python
+ZPTs.

> I built a local copy of perl in /usr/local/perl-<vers>/, use CPAN.pm 
> to manage modules, and adjust the #! line accordingly in those complex 
> applications.

Hm, that's in interesting take on it.  It doesn't really deal with the
reproducability aspect (well, I guess you can just copy the directory to
a new computer).

Wil
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Wil Cooley                                 wcooley at nakedape.cc
Naked Ape Consulting                        http://nakedape.cc

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