Re: Best strategy to facilitate dependency installation for a Perl-based software distribution

Depends, how clueless is the target audience?

How dependent is your software on non-standard libraries (unlike expat,libxml2,libgd...)?

Does your software require specific versions of cpan modules?

See this presentation and the mentioned solutions Seen in PerlWeekly newsletter: Carton CPAN dependency manager, maybe you use par, or cpan2rpm/cpan2deb...

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Re^2: Best strategy to facilitate dependency installation for a Perl-based software distribution by hermida (Scribe) on Oct 25, 2011 at 21:56 UTC
Depends, how clueless is the target audience? I would say I could assume they have basic Linux knowledge and can run scripts and answer interactive questions if needed in these scripts. How dependent is your software on non-standard libraries (unlike expat,libxml2,libgd...)? Not sure what you meant by non-standard libraries, every CPAN dependency I have is non-XS or has a non-XS version. Does your software require specific versions of cpan modules? No, works with any recent versions of libraries. See this presentation and the mentioned solutions Seen in PerlWeekly newsletter: Carton CPAN dependency manager, maybe you use par, or cpan2rpm/cpan2deb... Thanks for the heads up on Carton, didn't know this existed and I see T. Miyagawa recently started the project, this is great.	[reply]
Re^3: Best strategy to facilitate dependency installation for a Perl-based software distribution by JavaFan (Canon) on Nov 17, 2011 at 15:31 UTC
I would say I could assume they have basic Linux knowledge Linux? Make RPMs.	[reply]