Projects tagged ‘cpan’ and ‘tools’

300+ CPAN Modules in one repository

The Perl Archive (PAR) Toolkit helps create single-file bundles of Perl code, analogous to Java's JAR files. PAR can optionally create standalone executables that bundle the entire Perl interpreter to enable deployment to machines that lack Perl.

Dist::Zilla builds distributions of code to be uploaded to the CPAN. In this respect, it is like ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build, or Module::Install. Unlike those tools, however, it is not also a ... [More] system for installing code that has been downloaded from the CPAN. Since it's only run by authors, and is meant to be run on a repository checkout rather than on published, released code, it can do much more than those tools, and is free to make much more ludicrous demands in terms of prerequisites. [Less]

cpan2rpm makes it very easy to create RPM packages for most Perl modules hosted in CPAN. It handles downloading the tarballs, generating an RPM spec file, and running the rpmbuild commands.