[Buildroot] [PATCH 06/13] cpanminus: new package v3

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Sep 21 19:02:56 UTC 2012


Dear François Perrad,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:25:14 +0200, François Perrad wrote:

> Perl is useless without a CPAN client.
> The Perl packages are fine grained (compared to Python or Ruby ones),
> for example the web framework Dancer (without any plugins) requires 22
> dependencies (direct or indirect).
> Debian has more then thousand Perl packages; I don't want to do the same thing.
> 
> Most of CPAN packages haven't a license file; usually the
> documentation contains an information, like : "LICENSE - same as Perl
> itself".
> 
> The reproductibility of a project (with an identified version of each
> CPAN module) could be done with a local CPAN mirror.

Ok. I am not a big fan, but I don't care too much about Perl for
embedded systems, and you are the one interested in Perl support, so
let's bring in what you believe is the right solution.

Thomas
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