All,
Has anyone ever considered creating a CPAN RT autobundle for each
release, or at least for each time the perl module requirements
change?
I haven’t had much experience with doing CPAN stuff. At the places
I’ve worked (as a sysadmin) there hasn’t been much of a need for
many different perl modules aside from those included with Perl.
As such, this autobundle thing could be a really bad idea for some
reason. But I was just reading the docs on it the other day so I
thought I would bring it up.
Thanks,
Matt
Matt Disney [mdisney@ecdev.fedex.com] quoth:
*>
*>Has anyone ever considered creating a CPAN RT autobundle for each
*>release, or at least for each time the perl module requirements
*>change?
*>
*>I haven’t had much experience with doing CPAN stuff. At the places
*>I’ve worked (as a sysadmin) there hasn’t been much of a need for
*>many different perl modules aside from those included with Perl.
*>As such, this autobundle thing could be a really bad idea for some
*>reason. But I was just reading the docs on it the other day so I
*>thought I would bring it up.
autobundle is slightly different than bundle in that autobundle is a
directive in the CPAN.pm command-line interface to either make a bundle of
everything on the system or a bundle of a few modules specified in the
argument, both of which make a bundle.
Bundles are very useful and there aren’t many cons to using them that I
can think of and I wish authors would use them more often. I use them
frequently for installing sets of modules across machines to ensure
consistency.
The CPAN Frequently Asked Questions - www.cpan.org covers how to make
a bundle either by autobundle or via h2xs with a bit of manual editing.
The only problem with Jesse making a CPAN bundle is that he hasn’t put RT
modules up on CPAN just yet and unless you have configured your CPAN.pm to
use CPAN::Site and have a local repository it wouldn’t be of much use to
the average CPAN.pm user.
e.
Bundles are very useful and there aren’t many cons to using them that I
can think of and I wish authors would use them more often. I use them
frequently for installing sets of modules across machines to ensure
consistency.
So the thing about bundles that fails for RT is that sometimes, we need
to make sure that a module is not newer than a certain version (such as
some of the recent difficulties with DBD::mysql beta releases.) This is why
I put together the testdeps/fixdeps stuff. It also allows me as a software
vendor to have users send me the output of testdeps, where it’s exceedingly
clear that they haven’t installed the required modules 
There’s also the small problem that RT’s requirements change from version to
version, as dependencies get yanked or added. I haven’t seen a clean
way to set up bundles in cpan to deal well with this.
jesse
The CPAN Frequently Asked Questions - www.cpan.org covers how to make
a bundle either by autobundle or via h2xs with a bit of manual editing.
The only problem with Jesse making a CPAN bundle is that he hasn’t put RT
modules up on CPAN just yet and unless you have configured your CPAN.pm to
use CPAN::Site and have a local repository it wouldn’t be of much use to
the average CPAN.pm user.
e.
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