Fwd: cpan2port

[Ryan Schmidt]

Marc's response:


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Marc Chantreux <khatar at phear.org>
> Date: March 24, 2009 09:57:41 CDT
> To: Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>
> Subject: Re: cpan2port
>
> hello Ryan,
>
> For the moment, we have no to fund the cpan2port project and i have no
> free time to hack on it ... I have a ready to use macports account and
> and hope i'll use it asap.
>
> Waiting for this glorious moment, please feel free to do everything  
> you
> find usefull for yourself and the communauty (very last version as
> attachement).
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 02:16:01AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> #! /usr/bin/perl
>>
>> Why is it using Mac OS X perl and not MacPorts perl? Perhaps it could
>> use "#! /usr/bin/env perl" so that it would use the perl that I  
>> prefer.
>
> i actually prepare the packages on my server that is a debian machine
> because my mac is an old damn slow G4 under tiger.
>
> but you're right: this must be fixed.
>
>> Third, I tried to run the script with no parameters, expecting a  
>> usage
>> The script appears to want a module Module::Depends but I guess  
>> Mac OS X
>> doesn't provide this. I don't want to use CPAN to install any  
>> modules in
>> my Mac OS X perl; I want to use MacPorts to install perl modules  
>> for use
>> with MacPorts perl. Then again, we don't seem to have a port
>> p5-module-depends either. Can we add this and any other ports this  
>> script
>> needs?
>
> I just generated the portfile (as attachement too). It's not tested:
> feel free to feeback if it doesn't work (or if everthing else goes  
> wrong).
>
>> Maybe I'm going about this wrong.
>
> No: *i* use it wrong ...
>
>> Clearly the author of the script got it to work,
>
> sure: i am the author and i generated everything required to  
> install the
> koha ILS.
>
>> and I assume others have as well since it was announced. Should
>> I be doing something different to use this script?
>
> I have only one testimonial of successfull use ... please be the  
> second
> one ;)
>
> regards
> marc


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