Re: All's fair (in) love and the sdk list

At 20:11 17/05/2000 -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
>The rest of the
>problem with a lack of net access is CPAN.pm's desire to download
>information (the module & author lists) before you can et the
>autobundle function to work.

That's true. However it isn't necessary unless we want to get only modules
that are also on CPAN. I know that's what we actually want, but it's likely
that whatever else is in @INC won't get a lot of hits over a wide user base.

>    Robin> Shouldn't take long to hack something like that
>    Robin> together. Would anyone consider that useful ?
>
>It might be handy to use as part of the SDK build process if nothing
>else, as it would provide information on which platforms are
>successfully building which modules.  Go for it.

I looked into CPAN.pm and it seems pretty easy to simply take out the code
that we want but then I recalled that TomC had once come up with something
called the pmtools that had a pminst tool that would simply list
everything. However the url in the p5p archives pointed to a file that
appears to be corrupted (can't open it on any platform I have access to).
Some searching did lead me to
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/ where there is a
pmdesc tool that seems like a good start. However it seems to fail on win32
for some reasons that I have yet to investigate.



.Robin
The more you run over a dog, the flatter it gets.