announce: cpan2port

[Rainer Müller]

Marc Chantreux wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:52:01AM +0100, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> If I understood you correctly, you have written a tool which can create
>> a Portfile for any Perl module from CPAN?
> 
> well ... in fact you can create a complete porttree:
> 
> cd /path/to/repo
> cpan2port -r Net::LDAP XML::RSS 
> 
> will create 
> /path/to/repo/perl/p5-perl-ldap/Portfile
> /path/to/repo/perl/p5-xml-rss/Portfile
> 
>> Sounds very nice, but at the
>> moment I can't access that URL...
> 
> yep ... the server seems to be down since yesterday. I'll ask for
> maintainance today (and will host on a reliable machine asap)

Now I tried a few times the last days, but still was not able to grab
it. I don't know how big the tool is, but maybe you can just attach a
tarball here or upload it on the MacPorts wiki?

Rainer