Re: Challenge: CPAN Golf

Just taking a guess at challenge 1 (I have no intention to install anything just for fun ;-):

cpan Jifty Plagger Catalyst
[download]

Also, does that count as one run or three? :-p

And challenge 2 is just no fun, thanks to merlyn's column The Big Modules in the Mini-CPAN.

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Re^2: Challenge: CPAN Golf by stvn (Monsignor) on Jan 08, 2008 at 18:43 UTC
Last I remember, Angerwhale held the record for "Most of CPAN installed" -stvn	[reply]
Re^3: Challenge: CPAN Golf by shmem (Chancellor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 00:09 UTC
Good example of software that shouldn't be on CPAN. It's a "blogging software that reads posts from the filesystem" etc and definitely not a module despite its disguise as such ( = it meets the formal criteria for perl modules). --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^4: Challenge: CPAN Golf by stvn (Monsignor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 01:09 UTC
CPAN is not just for modules though, there are a couple of applications on CPAN (ack by petdance comes to mind). As I am sure the author of Angerwhale is aware, CPAN (when used in this way) becomes a high availability, globally mirrored application distribution platform with automatic dependency resolution built right in. Oh yeah,.. and it's free and already installed on just about every *nix machine in existence. What more could a girl ask for? Keep in mind that CPAN has no rules beyond your basic "reasonable person principles". It could easily be argued that such anarchy is what has allowed CPAN to become what it is today. -stvn	[reply]