[Omaha.pm] Perl::Install

[Dave Thacker]

On Monday 17 December 2007 18:34:18 Jay Hannah wrote:
> As seen on #catalyst today...
>
> Someone was asking for something like this a while back. Was it Dave?
>
> j

Yes, that was me.  I may get to try it out in the next few weeks.

Dave

>
>
> [16:34]  <robkinyon> For those interested, I've released
> Perl::Install to CPAN
> [18:28]  <__robkinyon> jrockway: it's a set of scripts that automates
> the installation of a specific version of Perl and all the CPAN
> modules you specify
> [18:28]  <__robkinyon> The idea is that you specify a directory and a
> list of modules to install from CPAN and go get coffee
> [18:28]  <__robkinyon> come back in 30min and it's ready to go
> [18:29]  <__robkinyon> very useful for production systems where you
> want to have multiple versions of Perl, each corresponding to a
> different installation of the app
> [18:29]  <__robkinyon> also very useful for authors to have multiple
> Perls to test against
> [18:29]  <__robkinyon> and not just multiple versions of Perl, but
> different CPAN installations
>
>
> search.cpan.org should have it indexed by tomorrow(?). Tonight you
> can use PAUSE incoming:
>
>     http://pause.perl.org/incoming/
>
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