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6 Alien::Packages::Roadmap - high level to do list and targetted goals
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9 This page provides a high level overview about the future extensions of
10 the Alien::Packages module and the improvements of the module itself.
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13 More Targets
14 Alien::Packages needs support for a wider range of platforms and
15 packages, this covers Gentoo Linux or HP-UX as well as identifying
16 installed Perl5 modules using CPAN or CPANPLUS.
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18 More Information
19 Where feasible, additional information like installed patches (e.g.
20 AIX), package vulnerabilities (pkgsrc), installation dates, package
21 origin etc., can and should be provided.
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23 Speed Improvement
24 When querying packages of several files, for each file the query is
25 separately executed. That means, invoking the package tool for querying
26 each file, because most query tools exit with an error code when at
27 least one queried file isn't managed by this package management.
28 Speeding up querying multiple files needs a way to "ignore" safe
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32 There're several ways how you can help to support future development:
33 You can hire the author to implement the features you require at most
34 (this also defines priorities), you can negotiate a support and
35 maintenance contract with the company of the author and you can provide
36 tests and patches. Further, you can submit documentation and links to
37 resources to improve or add packaging systems or grant remote access to
38 machines with insufficient supported packaging tools.
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41 Jens Rehsack, "<rehsack at cpan.org>"
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44 Copyright 2010 Jens Rehsack.
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46 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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48 by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
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50 See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
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