Hi all, I've been hoping to run across a discussion of this question for a while, but I haven't seen it talked about, so I decided to ask. I write a lot of tools to solve various problems in a software development/QA organization. These tools do all kinds of different things and are used by many different people. I'm always reticent to use packages that are outside of the standard PERL distribution, even though most of them are wonderful, because I can't be sure that the machine(s) where the tools will be used will have had those additional packages installed. I KNOW that the PERL distribution will be there...it's installed with the OS. So how you all handle this dilemma? I was thinking that there must be some way of bundling packages into my own 'distribution' to be used on our site, but that would just be come yet another thing to maintain. thoughts? bigtiny

In reply to non-standard package management by bigtiny

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