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Wow, it's been almost two months since I last wrote a blog entry.
Sorry about that.  In that time, I've been writing a new data storage
system, a
L<Magritte|http://www.lukas-renggli.ch/smalltalk/magritte>-like class
metadescription system, a new templating system, and a few other
useful things.  We are using them "in production" at work, but they're
not quite ready for release yet.  I will blog about them when we're
sure they're not crap.  In the mean time, you can peruse
C<MooseX::Storage::Directory>, C<Ernst>, and C<Template::Refine> at
L<http://git.jrock.us/> for a taste.

I do have a small tidbit today, though.  The other day, I was talking
with L<Alias++|http://ali.as/> about C<Module::Install>, and the
pushback he encountered when he removed the C<auto_install> feature
(which is temporarily back, I think).  One of the features that
C<auto_install> provides is the ability to type C<make installdeps> in
a directory that contains something resembling a CPAN module (a CPAN
module, a Catalyst app, etc.) and have all of that module's/app's
dependencies installed from the CPAN.  This is subtly different from
C<cpan .>, which installs the dependencies I<and> whatever is in the
directory.  Normally you don't want to install your work-in-progress
or your full Catalyst application, so C<cpan .> is useless unless you
C<C-c> at just the right time.

So, I've written a module called C<Module::InstallDeps> that ships
with a C<installdeps> script that works just like C<make installdeps>.
However, it works for any Perl module, not just C<Module::Install>
modules.

Right now, I haven't tested it with C<Module::Build> modules, so I
haven't released it quite yet.  However, it's already proven very
useful for me and you can get it from C<git.jrock.us> to try out:

  $ git clone git://git.jrock.us/Module-InstallDeps

Once you have that installed, you get the C<installdeps> script.  You
can just run it in a directory, and it will install the necessary
dependencies.  Since both C<CPAN> and C<CPANPLUS> are core,
C<installdeps> supports both.  It defaults to CPAN, but the C<--cpanp>
command-line option will convince it to use C<CPANPLUS> instead.  (I
use CPANPLUS, for various reasons.)

Anyway, I will see everyone at OSCON this week, and hopefully get some
blogging done too!

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