Re: DWIM inc bundling design discussion (LONG)

Hi David

$many x $thanx for the detailed reply.

More below.

On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:39 -0400, David Golden wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ron Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip]
> > o Off-line: For those of us who work on machines with no mini CPAN and
> > no internet access, I assume this mechanism will be self-contained, in
> > that everything will 'just work' without that access? Yes?
> 
> As an end-user, it will "work", but of course, if you're offline and
> have no minicpan, how are you even downloading the distribution to
> install it in the first place?

Manually, of course, distro-by-distro. I work, without a compiler, deep
inside Australia's phone and internet company Telstra.

Just a couple of weeks ago I managed to use a compiler on a test machine
to compile Perl, for the first time (at work) in 3 long years.

[snip]
> (Side editorial -- I can't fathom why you would be developing offline
> without a minicpan.  It's so easy to set up and only about a gig.  I
> love being on an airplane at 30k feet and finding I want some module
> and being able to install it right then and there.)

Well, I'm developing code for Telstra. I help manage their 15,000 (sic)
network routers...

If I discern something worth bundling for CPAN in what I'm doing, I
write it from scratch at home.

-- 
Ron Savage
[email protected]
http://savage.net.au/index.html