[Bristolbathpm] Project

[Amias Channer]

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 20:13 +0100, Lyle wrote:
> Hi All,
>   Here is the outline:-
> 
> http://perl.bristolbath.org/projects/cpan.html
> 
> Aim:- "Bring CPAN to the masses... and make Perl scripts easy to 
> install" - or something along those lines :)
> 
> Please take the time out to read through, then hit me with all your 
> criticism ;)

There are some wrinkles with CPAN but i'm not sure it needs to be
remade , to me it sounds like you are suggesting some sort of
CPAN::Simple

A lot of the issues you mention could be solved by encouraging 
hosting providers to pre configure cpan with PREFIX set to some
where in the users home directory.

Maybe a toolkit to help roll out these settings might solve most of the
problems ? i.e make it so easy that it happens

One of the reasons i use dreamhost is because its almost become a
standard
configuration in that most of its quirks are documented through the
sheer volume of  other users on the same platform. This goes a long way
to mitagating the problems of shared hosting ( although it provides many
others of its own ;) and other providers could benefit from some kind of
standardisation.

Perl certified hosting would be a pretty cool idea , but only if we can
call it 
Poosticks.

Its not quite as exciting but its very doable and you won't need to herd
so many cats.

Toodle-pip
Amias

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