Uhm, really? CPAN.pm comes with perl.

The Linux user most likely meant that he had never configured CPAN, highlighting the inexperience of some users. A previously unmentioned option for getting around this would be to link to a tutorial on configuring/using CPAN. However, some users simply don't want to configure CPAN, no matter that it should take any person with half a brain about 5 minutes to do. If you were to require that users correctly configure CPAN in order to use your program, you would be losing part of your potential user base. Shielding your users from advanced configuration issues can be a slippery slope, but I think that in this case it makes sense. The target audience for a Perl/Tk grading program is not necessarily interested in learning how to configure CPAN, and providing them with a very easy means of installing and using your program is a good thing.

There are definitely lots of ways to do this, such as PAR or cpan2rpm, and I think that making installation easy on your users is part of marketing your application, something that bcrowell2 seems to be interested in.

Also, I think PAR is very cool. :D

In reply to Re: Re: telling users how to get CPAN modules by biosysadmin
in thread telling users how to get CPAN modules by bcrowell2

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