On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Brad Lhotsky <brad.lhot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to mention the RedHat Perl distribution has been notoriously bad.  I
> know the last 5.8.8 release still shipped without weak reference support.
>  Try to install Moose or any Modern Perl Module, without weak reference
> support!

Hmmmm, interesting because we are just pushing forward with a new
project based on Moose

> I'm moving to building my own Perl installed in /opt/local/perl and then
> I'll setup a CPAN::Mini site.  I'll use Puppet to push the CPAN::Config.pm
> to all my boxes to use the local repository.  I'll need to setup something
> to monitor CPAN for updates to packages I'm mirroring locally.

For me I don't even care about updates.   We generally do not want any
updates on RPMs or CPAN without spinning them through a thorough test
cycle, so we don't want anything updated automatically.

> There are several projects that I'm working on that will require a "Perl
> Environment Freeze."  Those will be separate CPAN::Config.pm's.
> That's one of my next projects, so I'll let you know how it goes.  I'm a
> Perl programmer at heart, which means I'm lazy, which means I'll have the
> "add module + dependencies to local cpan::mini repository scripted (if it's
> not already)."

Please keep me posted!!!


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