Managing perl modules

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Ian A. Tegebo wrote:

> I'm finding myself needing perl modules that aren't already ports.  I
> haven't been using BSDPAN because I heard that that method doesn't work
> with portupgrade and friends.  So far I've been following the porter's
> handbook for my own local ports overlay.
>
> Is there a recommended method for managing perl modules?  I was hoping
> cpan2dist via CPANPlus would do the trick but it looks like it hasn't
> been subclassed for ports yet:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~kane/CPANPLUS-0.076/
>
> I know Gentoo has g-cpan for this purpose and debian has dh-make-perl.
> Is BSDPAN dead simple and I've just been missing out?
>
> --
> Ian Tegebo

How dead is BSDPAN? If someone could provide me with some info I can look into fixing it maybe.

-Garrett