On 15/07/10 16:03, Joe Atzberger wrote:
Yeah, the whole point of preferring distro packages is for binaries and distro-specific configs. Any decent image manipulation components will rely on binary code for performance. Unfortunately, too many CPAN modules fail to build XS correctly on a given platform (including debian, historically), hence the distro package approach.
What kind of complication are you seeing? Its just an extra hoop to jump through. Especially of you are using testing perl environments or stuff like local:lib its easier if you can just bundle your cpan requirements, not have to rebuild one module separately. Mind you having had "fun" with Image::Magick's more fluid api in the past I can see why Graphics::Magick came about.
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