Re: question on glade/gtkperl application packaging

[Joe Smith <jes martnet com>]

Dermot Musgrove wrote:
> ...
> Nobody has asked me about this before so I would appreciate some
> feedback from people who use Glade-Perl. 
>
> How did you end up with so many trees? Are you including the Gtk-Perl
> tree and Glade/PerlRun.pm in this count? 

Ok. Mine is probably an extreme example; Glade/Glade-perl is only part 
of the problem.  I have several multi-level classes, some app-specific 
and some public.  I have XS modules which install binaries and perl 
support.  I have kernel modules (ok, that's not Perl).  I have shell 
scripts that run the other parts.  Just getting the PERL5LIB setting 
right so all the parts can be found is tough.  Then when I upgrade Perl, 
the version number changes the paths (that may be a distro packaging issue).

If you're thinking 'this guy needs to re-design', I'd be the first to 
agree.  Maybe next week ;-)

> > Tracking all the dependencies (Gtk-perl, glade, glade-perl, icons,
> > various CPAN modules) is another nightmare.
>
> Have you tried CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS.pm to automate all this?

Several of the machines I have to support have no internet connection.

Enough whining.  Thanks for you suggestions.  I do think it's an area 
for improvement.

<Joe