[Israel.pm] perl modules in Linux distributions

[Yona Shlomo]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Gabor Szabo wrote:

> Are there people who are interested in learning how to package modules
> in .deb .rpm etc. and then how to add them to the main repositories of
> the various distros?

I'm interested to learn how to package CPAN modules for .rpm
and .deb -- moreover, I'd like to learn how such packaging
should be done in order to comply with the distribution's
internal dependency system. Another interesting issue is the
ability to install such packages in a "sandbox" or in my
homedire rather than globally for the system.

So, I'm interested in the above mentioned issues -- so if
this is what you had in mind you got my attention, and I
think that several others in F5 will also be interested in
this.

> I would be really glad to have a meeting (in June ?) where we can learn this.

I vote for it.
I can even suggest two CPAN modules as example for "should
be a breeze" and "should be a nightmare" :-)

The first one is Convert::Binary::C  and the other is goold old XML::Twig.
(who will teach how to do this??? what happens if we all
come to learn this but no one actually knows how to do
this?)

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Shlomo Yona
yona at cs.technion.ac.il
http://yeda.cs.technion.ac.il/~yona/