Most if not all of the distros have absolutely _terrible_ perl CPAN coverage. That is, they don't cover nearly enough modules, and those that they do are often very very old ( which is part of what has caused the GD stupidity. GD and CPAN upgraded, the distros lagged horribly )
Without the 20 CPAN modules it needs, you can't create a "cvsmonitor" package. I have had someone hand me an RPM once upon a time, but it didn't deal with any of the dependancies, which doesn't really solve the problem.
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Gentoo's is fairly spectacular, IMHO. And it's got a script called g-cpan.pl that automatically grabs stuff from CPAN and fits it into Gentoo's packaging system. Works great in nearly every case.
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There's actually now a perl debian module group, and I've submitted a big chunk of stuff to them to package. So we might be getting closer to something usable in the debian and friends distros.
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After having burned half a day or so wrestling fruitlessly with GD to get 2.x installed (on Red Hat 9.x under VMWare), I was wondering:
Are there any distro's that have CVS Monitor pre-packaged in them, or a least packaged via an apt-get or similar?
Or even have GD 2.x installed/packaged so that the CVS Monitor configuration *just* works ...???
Thanks!
Yeah, I wish.
As far as I know, the story goes like this
Most if not all of the distros have absolutely _terrible_ perl CPAN coverage. That is, they don't cover nearly enough modules, and those that they do are often very very old ( which is part of what has caused the GD stupidity. GD and CPAN upgraded, the distros lagged horribly )
Without the 20 CPAN modules it needs, you can't create a "cvsmonitor" package. I have had someone hand me an RPM once upon a time, but it didn't deal with any of the dependancies, which doesn't really solve the problem.
That's pretty much what I thought.
Its a shame - the Perl community maybe should advocate/fix the problem.
I'm going to try Fedora Core 1 as a real install, and keep beating on the boss for the dedicated Linux box.
Thanks for the reply!
Gentoo's is fairly spectacular, IMHO. And it's got a script called g-cpan.pl that automatically grabs stuff from CPAN and fits it into Gentoo's packaging system. Works great in nearly every case.
There's actually now a perl debian module group, and I've submitted a big chunk of stuff to them to package. So we might be getting closer to something usable in the debian and friends distros.