As long as we're asking about Active State Perl and the CPAN . . .

I've had Active Perl for about three months, and I've use the PPM effectively, and when I've had to go get stuff from the CPAN I've just downloaded the .tar.qz, unzipped it to a temp directory, and moved it to the appropriate place. The way we talk about nmake and the like I wonder what's wrong with this method. I suspect that it has something to do with modules that are interfaces to bit of C or the like, but I can't actually find an explanation in the docs, which are somewhat *nix centric and assume you know what make does.

I'd appreciate an explanation.

Cheers,
Erik

In reply to Re: Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl by erikharrison
in thread Adding CPAN Modules to Active State Perl by jlk

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