Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I wonder (I bet) if there exists Perl program that does updating of scripts via web pages:
- user has some perl scripts in his directory
- it goes to certain web page and there gets info about versions of his scripts and which scripts could be updated
- he decides and then updates this scripts


Could this be achieved in secure manner (crypting, signing code snippets) ?

With what Perl SW framework I could run these scripts as independent modules and do updating/disabling in run time and passing messages/data between them ?


Thanks in advance,
regards,
Robert.
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Re: Perl program for updating code parts from web ?
by jasonk (Parson) on Mar 13, 2003 at 19:38 UTC

    You mean like the CPAN and CPANPLUS modules, which both have a shell mode that lets you see at a glance which of your modules are outdated as compared with the CPAN repository? CPANPLUS can even check signatures of signed packages.

    We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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      Yes, probably that's what I wanted. But only if it could be made automatic (so that user doesn't have to check manually) to be performed and user only selects through TV screen.

      I'm also interested in some way to make those modules as independent software agents that could be uplodaded/started/stopped from such interface...

      Thanks,
      Robert.
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