Re: Crypto SDK and Sidekick.

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:49:22PM -0700, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote:
> Along the way, I also hacked up a more general tool for building and
> maintaining SDKs. I call it "sidekick" and a bleeding alpha is
> available at:
> 
>     http://vipul.net/perl/sources/sidekick/

I'll start playing with it.


> The current version doesn't do anything fancier than fetch modules from
> cpan, help resolve dependencies, apply stored patches and roll a SDK
> distribution. 

Ooooooohhhh, applying patches.  Nice idea!


> But I intend to hack on it further and among other things
> have it automatically (and safely) roll new SDKs when new versions of
> constituent bundles are released on CPAN.

I can give you the code necessary to parse out the CPAN update email
if you need it.


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