CPAN for Perl applications?

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

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Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by samtregar (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2004 at 17:43 UTC
Like a lot of people, I host larger Perl apps on SourceForge and announce them on FreshMeat. Both offer search interfaces where you can specifically search for apps written in Perl, although FreshMeat's search engine seems to produce better results. -sam	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by jdtoronto (Prior) on Nov 11, 2004 at 17:14 UTC
Or perhaps being a little less cryptic: Scripts on CPAN would be a good place to start looking - and maybe even contributing! jdtoronto	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN for Perl applications? by rjbs (Pilgrim) on Nov 11, 2004 at 20:34 UTC
The CPAN scripts archive is basically dead and unmaintained. I'm not sure why it still hasn't been deleted. These days, applications can be found in the "normal" CPAN. Kwiki, SpamAssassin, and SoggyOnion. Then there are in-between things like Querylet. There are little utilities like crontab2english and lns. If it's reusable and useful, CPAN is probably OK. rjbs	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 11, 2004 at 16:52 UTC
What makes you think you can't put applications on CPAN?	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN for Perl applications? by danb (Friar) on Nov 12, 2004 at 20:14 UTC
Because CPAN doesn't have any features for installing configuration files, data files, etc. RPM does, apt does, PAR does, etc., but not CPAN. CPAN has executables, documentation, and libaries; but many full-blown applications consist of much more. I've hacked MakeMaker so that it will install my data and config files, but it really is just that: a hack. In my opinion, CPAN could stand to borrow a few features from rpm/apt and friends, then it would be a good place for Applications and code. -Dan	[reply]
Re^3: CPAN for Perl applications? by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 12, 2004 at 21:08 UTC
Are you talking about the CPAN shell? CPAN is just a repository for Perl software. You can put whatever you want on there. The CPAN shell would not be a good way to install an application though.	[reply]
Re^4: CPAN for Perl applications? by danb (Friar) on Nov 12, 2004 at 22:17 UTC
Re^2: CPAN for Perl applications? by knoebi (Friar) on Nov 11, 2004 at 19:27 UTC
Because most applications I know for perl arn't on CPAN and because I often read that CPAN is for reusable modules and not for applications.	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by DrHyde (Prior) on Nov 11, 2004 at 17:18 UTC
OpenGuides ... Unfortunately, us perlies aren't as good at writing installers as some other groups of people seem to be. This is especially important for large complex apps and for crazy mod_perlness like Maypole.	[reply]
Re^2: CPAN for Perl applications? by samtregar (Abbot) on Nov 11, 2004 at 18:26 UTC
I'm pretty proud of the Krang installer, which benefited from the help of the monks here (Installation System Design for a Large Apache/mod_perl Application). I've got a project cooking to extract the non-CMS stuff from Krang for general use; stay tuned! -sam	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by waswas-fng (Curate) on Nov 11, 2004 at 17:09 UTC
SpamAssassin ... -Waswas	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by Jaap (Curate) on Nov 12, 2004 at 16:47 UTC
I think it's good to mention NMS here. It's a replacement for Matt's script archive so it has a bunch of little cgi apps that a lot of people use.	[reply]
Re: CPAN for Perl applications? by Anonymous Monk on Nov 12, 2004 at 18:02 UTC
I think this is referred to as source rpm's or source dpkg's or CVS... In other words, application source for OSS projects is obtained through different ways independant of the language, and that's perfectly fine... Just be mindful of following license issues such as GPL.	[reply]