[csw-maintainers] Perl v5.10.1 in testing versus cssh

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 22.12.2009 um 17:40 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Tue Dec 22 08:27:19  
> -0500 2009:
>
>> BTW, the cpan2pkg script I mentioned is based on the script you  
>> cited,
>> but already has all the stuff from CSW in it with the exception of
>> producing packages instead of GAR Makefiles.
>
> The GAR support for quickly building a CPAN module is quite good too
> though.  Updating any of the pm_* packages should be trivial if
> they're already in GAR and near-so[1] if not.

Manually updating a package with GAR takes about 10 minutes whereas
a package update with a modified cpan2pkg will most certainly take
about 1 minute. As we have 100+ package to update this is something.


Best regards

   -- Dago