Hi Corion,
thanks for your long comment. As xdg pointed out, we really appreciate your input.
I'd like to address one point: You say that PPMs are the established way of providing binary packages. I think that's true in a way and false in another. It's the binary package format that is established with ActiveState Perl.
I know they just rewrote all of the PPM code and supposedly created a really shiny GUI. (I have only seen a couple of screenshots so far.) That's great, but if I am not mistaken, we are not free to use their PPM code with non AS Perl distributions. At least I could not find it on CPAN. This means that if we're building something for any Perl distribution to use, we shouldn't lock ourselves into the PPM cabinet. Do you agree?
Steffen
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