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RE: The case for SDKs
From:
Moore, Paul
Date:
August 6, 2001 12:48
Subject:
RE: The case for SDKs
Message ID:
714DFA46B9BBD0119CD000805FC1F53B01B5AF4B@UKRUX002.rundc.uk.origin-it.com
On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> Bundles are easy to make.
>
> Bundles are easy to use.
Bundles require CPAN.pm to work. Mine doesn't. I'm on Win32, using
ActiveState Perl, behind a firewall. CPAN.pm asks me a load of questions
(which I answer correctly, AFAICT), and then tells me it can't get
MIRRORED.BY. But I can get the URL referred to for myself, using wget.
I don't know why this is, and frankly, I haven't the time or expertise to
investigate. I just download and build manually. Or use ActiveState's PPM.
But this is a key issue. *If* bundles are the way to go, CPAN.pm must "just
work", straight out of the box, on all Perl installations. Otherwise,
there's a chunk of the audience who can't use the SDKs. (And that chunk is
probably the one least capable of dealing with getting and building their
own modules).
I'm also assuming that CPAN.pm can be told to download a bundle, which I can
then copy to a disk, and take around various machines which aren't connected
to the Internet. I've never proved that this is possible, as I haven't got
CPAN.pm to work, but I'd say that ease of offline use is another critical
issue.
Paul.