Gah! Browsing CPANPLUS's Makefile.PL (if you are using IE, then you'll have to download that file in order to view it despite the "Content-Type: text/plain", *sigh*), I can see why problems getting the thing installed might be more common than for some modules. 14kB of script just to build the Makefile?

Well, I almost never use CPAN, CPANPLUS, PPM, nor the others. I download modules and do the rather simple "perl Makefile.PL; make test; make install". Actually, I do use PPM from time-to-time, but I almost always download the *.ppm file myself and run "ppm *.ppm" (in part because PPM will almost never find/download anything for me).

I don't see much advantage to avoiding these rather simple steps, especially when I've had and seen so many problems trying to get these short-cuts to work or even seen them blow things away (by downloading and installing new versions of Perl, for example).

*shrug*

                - tye

In reply to Re^3: CPAN.pm and make (gah!) by tye
in thread CPAN.pm and make by silent11

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