-On [20080320 19:24], Steve Holden (steve@holdenweb.com) wrote:

We need to stop protesting that our installation tools are easy enough and try to get behind the various platforms, be it with Windows installers, rpms, or other support. We probably aren't doing this because it's work nobody particularly relishes, and has relatively low visibility in the developer world. Non-developer Python programmers and end-users would thank us, though.

FreeBSD offers through install of Perl through its ports system a Perl module called 'bsdpan' which registers every module as a package under FreeBSD's package system. Normally ports installs modules as p5-ModuleName, but now it becomes: /var/db/pkg/bsdpan-B-Lint-1.09 And from that point on I can use the pkg* tools. Quite elegant in my opinion. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ To regard the fundamental as the essence, to regard things as coarse, to regard accumulation as deficiency, and to dwell quietly alone with the spiritual and the intelligent -- herein lie the techniques of Tao of the ancients.