Re: PPMs on Linux

On 20/06/2011 20:11, Jan Dubois wrote:
> Lyle wrote:
>> What is ActiveStates current stance on PPMs for Linux? I remember some
>> time back reading that it was recommended to use cpan on linux rather
>> than ppm. Is that still the case? Or am I mistaken?
> I have no idea where this recommendation is coming from.  Using PPM
> on Linux should work just fine.  For modules not available on PPM
> you can try the CPAN shell (or CPANPLUS or cpanminus).

Not sure where I read that then. Maybe it was just a comment on 
PerlMonks or something.

> In general the difference is pretty much the same as choosing between
> e.g. .deb or .rpm pre-built packages, or compiling from source.
>
> Of course some module will require additional Linux libs to be
> pre-installed before you can build the CPAN module.  If these
> libs are missing from the PPM build machines, then those modules
> will fail to build/test, so you have to build the module yourself
> (after installing the prerequisite libs, again using either a
> package manager, or compiling from source).

We are also considering having the ability to run tests against PPM 
installed modules. Extracting the tests from the cpan source archive, 
then having the option to run against the installed PPM. Have you heard 
of anyone doing this? Do you think we will face many problems?

Thanks for your help Jan, no one knows this kind of stuff better than you.


Lyle

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