Darkpan => CPAN Service (part two)
A few months ago, when discussing how to support the 'darkpan' (what Perl programmers call the vast body of perl code floating around the internet or in private companies that we know nothing about) I suggested leveraging the vast CPAN distribution system as a sort of continuous integration/build service which we could offer as a for pay service to companies using Perl. This would have the dual benefit of encouraging corporations to package up their perl code properly (ie as CPAN module with a Makefile.PL, etc) and could help raise money to sponser Perl development.
What I'm thinking about would be similar to a ruby only service I noticed: http://runcoderun.com
Check that out and let me know what you think. What kind of services would the 'quasipan' be required to offer in order to entice companies into paying for it? For example, what do you think of the idea of being able to build a EC2 or other cloud image type from a base OS that intergrate any given set of CPAN and Darkcpan modules? Like, "I want a virtualbox VM with Perl 5.10.1 on debian with git, postgresql and Catalyst preinstalled, although with my private repo of proprietary code?"
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http://perlbuzz.com/mechanix/2008/01/make-your-own-mini-cpan.html
I'd love to hear more about the type of problem you have that you think this could solve. Thanks!
Definitely all 6 machines in the above case need to be synced. What I do is build to box one and then rsync to the remaining, including perl local libs.