Background
It is a pain to create binary packages. But installing a
program from source tarball is a tedious task. You need to
run ./configure & make && make install. Sometimes you
need to resolve the dependencies by hand as well. That's
where source-code-based package distribution systems come in, and
the largest system is, IMHO, CPAN. If you could upload a
autotools-based distribution onto CPAN, then the users of the
software can install them with the cpan command (or
cpanp or cpanf or whatever), with the dependencies automatically
resolved.
And for my case, it was considered especially benefitial, since
the program I am now working on (it's called incline, a replicator for RDB shards using
MySQL or PostgreSQL), uses perl scripts for running tests.
By distributing …
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