automation of perl port creation from cpan

[Torsten Zühlsdorff]

Hello,

On 24.02.2016 17:38, Chris H wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:13:48 +0100 Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote
>>>> I have a perl app that I'd like to move to FreeBSD. It currently has a
>>>> whole list of cpan dependencies. Is there any partial automation of
>>>> generating ports from CPAN directly? Something similar to py-pytoport
>>>> for example.
>>>
>>> You could have a look at App::Pm2Port
>>> (https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Pm2Port)
>>
>> Last change: January 2010, so it's probably not modern enough for the
>> newer infrastructure ?
> Good point. I wonder if a shell script might not be a better
> approach to accomplish the desired goal; it'd be easier to
> keep up to date with the evolving ports framework, and wouldn't
> require any additional [external] dependencies. Is there anything
> in under Mk/ that might be added to, or used as a starting point?

Just as side-note: Michael Fausten and myself currently working at an 
application which creates, tests and submits port-updates automatically. 
We aim to start with Rubygems and CPan. If you start working at creation 
of such a port, let us know. Maybe there is some synergy :)

Greetings,
Torsten