What is the functionality you're after that none of this provides?

I worked on the Krang system and, although I now think building from source every time was a bit slow, that system does allow you to install a specific set of modules with an application without disturbing anything else on the machine. It means you can install a dozen different versions of the app, with different versions of the same modules, on one machine. RPM could maybe do that if you use relocatable RPMs, but I'm not sure it would work with XS modules.

Shipwright does that as well, and also seems to handle dependencies between modules. The dependencies are the main thing that makes the CPAN shell so attractive: tell it to install Moose and come back in 30 minutes and it will have grabbed everything needed. When using things like RPM, you have to build that yourself. I've tried it with cpan2rpm and a wrapper script that tries to look up dependencies and download them. It's hard to get it 100%. Maybe CPANPLUS/cpan2dist get closer.

In reply to Re^3: Private Module Repository by perrin
in thread Private Module Repository by zerohero

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