Re: All CPAN Modules

It doesn't make sense to me to even try to install every module on CPAN. Some are OS specific, many have external dependancies you may not have. If you could install every module you'd use a lot of disk space and chances are you'd never use a large percentage of them. I do think it's wise to keep a local mirror (described here) handy.

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Re^2: All CPAN Modules by jnbek (Scribe) on May 01, 2013 at 02:48 UTC
Well that's the point, I'm not building them to try and use all of them, I'm conducting research into some things, and it involves installing every module on CPAN that will install on the build system. Again, I realize there will be a number of modules that won't build, due to OS constraints, wrong CPU architectures, old crappy code that hasn't been touched since 1998, whatever. I'm OK with all that :) I don't want to spoil anything, so I won't divulge too much more, but I already have my local CPAN mirror up, forked MetaCPAN on Github and formulated my evil plan to take over the world.. err umm test installing CPAN modules on steroids.. :-P. I want to benchmark build times, and a lot more. All y'all have been most excellent (as always) with the suggestions. I'll report and reveal more as I go. Perl 4LYF!!	[reply]
Re^3: All CPAN Modules by marto (Cardinal) on May 03, 2013 at 12:56 UTC
"I'll report and reveal more as I go." Please do, I'm curious about the nature of your projet.	[reply]