My earlier post --

Thinking out loud about creating a real puppet package provider to handle perl modules, led this afternoon to a conversation on #perl-help with ilmari_ who pointed out that the lack of a real package manager for perl will frustrate efforts to wrap that missing functionality in a native puppet provider …

Any other puppet using perl developers out there frustrated by the lack of a native cpanm provider for package resources in puppet?

I just ordered "Puppet Types and Providers". Should be here in two weeks. I'm thinking it would be nice to contribute back a new provider to the puppet code base to serve our needs as perl developers and as sysadmins who have to manage perl code bases.

I just created a project work space for such work at:
https://github.com/hesco/cpanm-puppet-provider

I'll try l…