Developers of Sympa

[Luc Didry <address@concealed>]

Hello,

I wanted to discuss about it during the hackathon, but why not talk
right now?

Carton (https://metacpan.org/pod/Carton) is a Perl module dependency
manager, allowing to install the exact versions of modules chosen by
the developers. The modules are installed in a `local` directory.

Pros:
- no more "What version of modules do you have" (if the installation
  was properly made): just say what version of Sympa you have
- a problem is caused by a module, that have a fix in a new version
  (or has not the problem in a previous version)? No pb, the devs have
  just to install the right version and push the new cpanfile.lock
- you can create "features" like --without=oracle to not install the
  dependencies for Oracle DB (https://metacpan.org/pod/cpanfile)

Cons:
- the scripts need to be launched with `carton exec ./script --
  --options` (maybe there is some workaround, I don't know)
  I usually create wrapper scripts to avoid such long command.

What do you think? Is it worth looking into?
-- 
Luc
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