[Cincinnati-pm] Topic idea: Perl release and dependency management (was Re: September 23rd - cinci.pm)
Ernst, Kevin
Kevin.Ernst at cchmc.org
Mon Sep 21 11:14:50 PDT 2015
On 9/21/15 9:49 AM, Jon Gentle wrote:
> As of this morning we do not have a topic, but I will be working on
> lining up one before Wednesday and will let you know.
Figure it's a little late to propose something for Wednesday, but as an
idea for the future, how about something along the lines of "Make a
'Twelve-Factor App' (http://12factor.net/) with Perl"?
I look at how the cool kids are distributing web apps with all their
'bundle install's and Python virtualenvs and whatnot, and this leaves me
wondering if similar tools exist for Perl. While very convenient, I
don't particularly fancy depending on libraries from the OS package
manager, and I constantly wrestle with getting 'local::lib' to behave
properly (probably because I don't deeply understand CPAN yet). But
that's what I've had to resort to so far.
I'm afraid that the answer might be simply "TIMTOWTDI," but at this
point in my career I can't trust myself to inflict a homegrown amateur
packaging/release system on my co-workers, so I'd prefer to stick with
something that somebody smarter than me already worked out.
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa has written things like ShipIt and Carton, but what
are people actually using in the field?
--Kevin
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