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David Golden
Date:
May 24, 2011 01:41
Subject:
Re: RFC: Private CPAN In A Box
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On Monday, May 23, 2011, David Golden <david@autopragmatic.com> wrote:
> The problem is that there is no way for a single application to use multiple versions of a module.  So it's easy to imagine that very specific module prereqs could be in conflict and require manual override. That's not the right answer.
>
> What we need is application level dependencies that are specific and non conflicting and then to make it easy to install into app specific lib directories.
> That's what im

The SEND button should be harder to press by accident...

That's what I'm working on in June - trying to tie all the various
lessons from other toolchain and meta tools into something that can be
for Perl apps what cpan(p|m) is for Perl modules.

I think people are trying to make cpan solve the application level
problem and that's why "custom CPAN mirror" seems like the answer.

David

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