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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Moore, Paul wrote: > From: Peter Prymmer [mailto:pvhp@forte.com] > > My guess is that adding 'bindist' to MakeMaker could proceed without > > harming an effort to produce a more dynamic Config.pm than > > what is current practice. > > AIUI, the "PPM" binary format is usable on any platform - just do "make ppd" > to make the .ppd file, and then tar/gz the "blib" directory from the build. > Take the two of these to the target machine, and use PPM to install them. > > The only problem(s) are (1) PPM has dependencies (like XML::Parder) which > may not be present - chicken & egg problem, and (2) as far as I know, PPM is > not available from CPAN, or indeed anywhere independently of ActiveState's > distributions. I don't believe that there is any licensing reason why it > shouldn't be available, maybe someone in ActiveState could put PPM onto > CPAN, so that it could be used. > > Again, I don't know how much interest there would be in this, but it is > there already. Yes there is interest in this -- judging by the number of posts in other forums that I have seen concerning folks' trials with .rpm, .deb, package, etc. distributions of perl. I was aware of the ppd target for ppm, but until you mentioned it I did not know that ppm itself was not widely available. That seems a shame. Peter PrymmerThread Previous | Thread Next