I'm looking for a good solution for installing my CPAN favorites. I use about 20 modules really regularly and when I set up new machines or new perl installations, I find myself manually typing from a list of favorites -- a text file I keep in cvs.

It seems to me that I could easilly CPAN::Shell->install("them all"), but I'm wondering if there's a better way.

Someone suggested autobundle. And actually, simpler than that, I find that building a Bundle::JetsFavorites is really tempting, but I can't think of a way install Bundle::JetsFavorites without uploading the module to J/JE/JETTERO. I don't think uploading my list of favorites to CPAN is a good solution either.

I'm really asking two questions:

  1. Is there a really easy solution for a CPAN favorites list?
  2. How could I install CPAN::JetsFavorites without uploading it to CPAN?

If nothing else, I'm tempted to write a CPAN::Favorites -- or something like that -- so I can make this easier on me and others. I doubt it would be much more than CPAN::Shell->install($_) foreach @favorites though.

In reply to CPAN Favorites by jettero

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