macports-contrib/cpan2port

NAME

cpan2port - A tool to generate MacPorts Portfiles from CPAN distributions

VERSION

version 0.001001

USAGE

cpan2port uses at least one flag and a list of module names. Module names can also be read from stdin.

cpan2port -t Net::LDAP Test::Harness

works.

cpan2port -t < packages_list

works too.

Flags tell cpan2port what to do

• -v

  By default, cpan2port doesn't print useless CPAN messages. Use -v if you want to show them.

• -t

  Generate portfiles from a list of modules.

  Go to your local MacPorts repository and type

  cpan2port -t Net::LDAP Test::Harness
  find .
  

  and you'll see

  ./perl
  ./perl/p5-perl-ldap
  ./perl/p5-perl-ldap/Portfile
  ./perl/p5-test-harness
  ./perl/p5-test-harness/Portfile
  

• -f

  Format output for all package names. For example

  cpan2port -f '#{port}' Net::LDAP
  

  will print

  p5-perl-ldap
  

  special format string YAML shows a yaml dump about packages

  cpan2port -f YAML Net::LDAP
  

  so it's easy to see what information is available.

KNOWN BUGS AND TODO LIST

• Have to launch twice to generate packages? -v flag messes things up?
• Add perl version support to have a better dependencies grabbing

AUTHOR

Marc Chantreux

CONTRIBUTORS

• Dan Ports dports@macports.org
• David B. Evans devans@macports.org
• Frank Schima mf2k@macports.org
• Kurt Hindenburg khindenburg@macports.org
• Larry Gilbert l2g@macports.org
• Mojca Miklavec mojca@macports.org
• Ryan Schmidt ryandesign@macports.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by BibLibre.

This is free software; permission to redistribute, modify, etc. is granted under the terms of the WTFPL, which can be found in the COPYING file accompanying this program, or on the Web at: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING