Re: [MacPerl] MacCPAN Comments

[David Turley <dturley@pobox.com>]

In message "Re: [MacPerl] MacCPAN Comments", Arved Sandstrom wrote:

>But then I saw that at laest one of my downloads had a DLL in it, and I
>realized what PPM and ActiveState were doing, hence my later comments. But
>as regards your last sentence, that's essentially my point, too - what PPM
>is doing, and what ActiveState is doing with the package repository on
>their site, is a worthy target for us to shoot for.
>

Most definately. One other thing that PPM doesn't do is put in the perldoc
stuff. I hope they fix that. For modules that don't need compiling, I
download from CPAN and use dmake to install. I only use PPM for the XS
stuff. PPM creates HTML help files instead of pods (I beleive this to be a
true statement.)

I think a repository like this for MacPerl stuff would ease the way for
more general use. Of course, that would probably mean some sort of
commercial supportted site  and software companies aren't exactly jumping
*to* the Mac OS.

Of course module authors should be encouraged to make modules
cross-platform, like cgi.pm, and put them on CPAN, but I think more and
more will need compiling and that will need a separate repository, like
ActiveState. I don't think CPAN can be a central repository for everything,
for this reason.

Now, if we can get Perl for the Palm III, we'll ask 3Com to be the
repository. :-)

cheers,
david

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