[Chicago-talk] There's a CPAN module that exists under /by-author but not /by-module

[Joel Limardo]

"When a CPAN module I want to use does not have a FreeBSD port, I'll
try to make one. It's usually easy, since it's mostly boilerplate..."

First, I think it is really cool that you do that. I think it is awesome and
you should be congratulated. Now that you mention it there are some modules
that will not install on Win32 under Strawberry Perl that I might consider
doing the same to.

Regarding the problem, didn't you just shoot an e-mail to Michael Schwern
asking him if he did anything strange when posting to CPAN?



On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Dan Rench
<drench+chipm at gmail.com<drench%2Bchipm at gmail.com>
> wrote:

> When a CPAN module I want to use does not have a FreeBSD port, I'll
> try to make one. It's usually easy, since it's mostly boilerplate.
>
> I'd like to write one for perl5i, but I'm finding a lot of its
> dependencies don't have ports yet [*]. Right now, I'm trying to finish
> a port for one dependency: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Child/ .
>
> The usual process for installing a CPAN module through ports begins
> with fetching the source from
> ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/modules/by-module/ (or a mirror). The
> problem is that ../by-module/Child/ doesn't exist. Yet the source
> *does* exist under ../by-authors/id/E/EX/EXODIST/. The module is only
> 2 weeks old. Is this a bug or do I just need to be more patient?
>
>
> [*] if anyone wants to help writing some of these, let me know and we
> can divide the work. I can't be the only FreeBSD fan here.
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