[Pdx-pm] Suggestion for July 8th meeting - modules and CPAN plumbing
Eric Wilhelm
enobacon at gmail.com
Thu Jun 25 17:31:02 PDT 2009
Hi all,
We're just under two weeks from the July meeting and the only suggestion
thus far has been hijacked into a (sounds like fun) code sprint.
So here's another suggestion: how modules work and stuff about the
CPAN.
Here's a suggested agenda:
* configuring your CPAN/CPANPLUS client
* what makes a module
* what happens when you install a module (where does stuff go?)
* what happens when you load a module
* how to make a distribution
* how distributions get on the CPAN (PAUSE)
* how distributions get found by the CPAN client
* what a distribution contains, metadata
Some of this is fairly basic and other parts are lesser known. I think
it would be interesting to have multiple speakers (if there are 8, you
each only need 5 minutes of material), but it would take some
preparation to get all of the slides ready to go in a coherent 40min
run.
Does that sound interesting and useful? Did I miss anything or is any
of it too basic? Igal will talk about .packlists ;-) Other volunteers?
--Eric
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"But as to modern architecture, let us drop it and let us take
modernistic out and shoot it at sunrise."
--F.L. Wright
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