announce: cpan2port

[Rainer Müller]

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> I'm working on simplify the installation of the koha ILS
> (http://koha.org) on mac. I decided to use macports and write the missing Portfiles.
> 
> I comes fast to me that i can automate a good part of the Portfile
> generation and i did it. cpan2port comes with bugs but in entirely wrote
> the Portfiles of the perl section of the repo you can download here:
> http://mc.koha-fr.org/mac/ports/
> 
> It does not depends on macports tools so you can use it in another
> system (i use it myself on a debian machine).
> 
> You can try it yourself at
> 
> http://mc.koha-fr.org/mac/cpan2port/

If I understood you correctly, you have written a tool which can create
a Portfile for any Perl module from CPAN? Sounds very nice, but at the
moment I can't access that URL...

Rainer