From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 13 21:40:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32829106566C for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:40:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B3578FC1F for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:40:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iyb11 with SMTP id 11so7581069iyb.13 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:40:50 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.84.67 with SMTP id i3mr1264167ibl.187.1310591824230; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.13.203 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:17:04 -0400 Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Perl Libs in FreeBSD CPAN and Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:40:51 -0000 Hello, I generally use the CPAN shell mainly to get the latest version of CPAN modules but for modules that use XS I usually prefer using the port. Ports also seem to have pretty good versions of everything and I use these 2 mechanisms interchangeably. Anyway, my question is really to learn more on how these ports are maintained, etc. For example, in Debian Linux they have a Debian Perl policy, is there such a policy or something similar in FreeBSD so I can further read-up on the matter? Thanks, -- Alejandro Imass