[Edinburgh-pm] CPAN application installation in practice

Barbie barbie at missbarbell.co.uk
Wed Jun 13 08:35:04 PDT 2007


On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:06:54PM +0100, Nick Woolley wrote:
> 
> I don't suppose anyone has any pointers or books they could lend me that 
> explains how to write CPAN-style module distrbutions which do things 
> like that?  It doesn't seem to be something directly supported by the 
> framework I'm using, Module::Build.

Have a look at the Alien:: distributions (eg Alien::Selenium [1]), as
they do things like this when installing 3rd party libraries. I suggest
Selenium as that installs well on Win32 too :)

[1]
http://search.cpan.org/src/DOMQ/Alien-Selenium-0.05/lib/Alien/Selenium.pm

Cheers,
Barbie.
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