in reply to [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell

These are mostly complaints about Makefile.PLs and the generally loose way that module testing and installation is (not) specified. Have you checked to see if any of your actual shell ease-of-use complaints are addressed in CPANPLUS?
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Re^2: [rant] Of the suckage of the CPAN shell
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 11, 2006 at 19:03 UTC
    CPANPLUS is worse.
    • Installing a large bundle makes it appear as if it hangs.

    • The shell does not remember command history between sessions.

    • It also just gives GPG fingerprints. I cannot look up a key with that.

    • When I t Foo::Bar and it passed, I cannot i Foo::Bar because:

      Not in MANIFEST: blib/arch/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/arch/auto/Foo/Bar/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/bin/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/lib/auto/Foo/Bar/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/lib/Foo/Bar.pm Not in MANIFEST: blib/man1/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/.exists Not in MANIFEST: blib/man3/Foo::Bar.3pm Not in MANIFEST: Makefile Not in MANIFEST: pm_to_blib ==> MISMATCHED content between MANIFEST and distribution files! <==

      Quitting the CPANPLUS shell, unlike CPAN, does not help purge here. It remembers the mess instead of starting clean over. I have to z Foo::Bar and make distclean before I can i Foo::Bar again. Aaargh.

    • [ERROR] Could not send 'fail' report for 'Foo-Bar-0.01': Test::Reporte +r: Unable to send test report [ERROR] Failed to send test report for 'Foo::Bar'

      And why? Give me a reason, so I can fix it!