Are PPM/RPM repositories likely to happen or be a good idea?

IMHO, the CPAN repository should be as platform-agnostic as possible. Of course, things in the Win32:: namespace will rarely, if ever, be useful outside Windows. Even so, things on CPAN need to install the same way on a broad range of platforms.

There is an argument that fledgling package systems could make use of the CPAN mirrors instead of going to the trouble of setting up its own mirror system. For those people, I suggest looking at an article I wrote for the Linux Journal a while back on Using Debian Apt-get over Freenet. It makes use of Freenet's FProxy (a gateway that lets you use Freenet over HTTP) to allow any package management system that can support HTTP to use Freenet. The article is specific to Debian, but the approach could probably be generalized to almost any package manager with HTTP support.

(Note that I've stepped away from the Freenet project, so things might have changed since I wrote the article. However, I imagine FProxy is still there and the basic approach will still work.)

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In reply to Re: Module::Build and the PPM by hardburn
in thread Module::Build and the PPM by barbie

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