I suppose if you never experienced the ease of "perl Makefile.PL, make, make install" on a module

Not only are you mistaken about my experience, it's much easier to use cpan Module, and even easier to do ppm install Module since it handles external libraries.

So 

[Install external dependencies]
[Find URL for Module]
wget [URL for Module]
perl Makefile.PL
make test
make install

[download]

becomes 

ppm install Module

[download]

And if that fails, 

[Install external dependencies]
cpan Module

[download]

It's basically the equivalent of Debian's 

apt-get install perl-module-lib

[download]

except it also works for builds of Perl other than the system build.

In reply to Re^5: what is the difference between perl scripting in windows and linux by ikegami
in thread what is the difference between perl scripting in windows and linux by Anonymous Monk

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