CPANPLUS with versioned Modules

mishikal has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm moving from cpan to cpanplus to install modules because sometimes I need to for specific versions. While:

cpanp -i Compress-Zlib-1.42
[download]

works, I need to use it via

perl -MCPANPLUS -e "..."
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I've gotten:

perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress::Zlib)"
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to work, for example, but I've been unable to get anything with versions involved to also work.

[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress-Zlib-1.42)"
[download]

ERROR No such module '-1.42'

[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e "install(Compress-Zlib)"
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ERROR No module specified!

According to the documentation, specifying the author path should work:

[build@build ~]$ perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install(/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-
+1.42)'
[download]

Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "/P/PM" (Missing operator before PM?)

Anyone know how I can do this? Thanks!

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Re: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by ysth (Canon) on Jun 20, 2007 at 02:19 UTC
You need to quote the module or distribution names. Also, you seem to be missing a -w switch :) ysth@raven:~$ perl -wle'sub i { print "installing: $_[0]" } i(Compress +::Zlib)' installing: Compress::Zlib ysth@raven:~$ perl -wle'sub i { print "installing: $_[0]" } i(Compress +-Zlib-1.42)' Argument "Zlib" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at -e line 1. Argument "Compress" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at -e line 1. installing: -1.42 ysth@raven:~$ perl -wle'sub i { print "installing: $_[0]" } i(Compress +-Zlib)' Argument "Zlib" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at -e line 1. Argument "Compress" isn't numeric in subtraction (-) at -e line 1. installing: 0 [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by mishikal (Novice) on Jun 20, 2007 at 17:18 UTC
Quoting the module doesn't fix my underlying issue, which is being able to specify a version. It does fix the problem with -1.42 being called a module. `perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42")' [ERROR] No such module '/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42'` [download] `perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("Compress-Zlib-1.42")' [ERROR] No such module 'Compress-Zlib-1.42'` [download] Help still desired. :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by ysth (Canon) on Jun 20, 2007 at 19:39 UTC
Going by the documentation, it looks like you need to add the extension: `perl -MCPANPLUS -we 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42.tar.gz")'` [download] but I just looked at the code, and there doesn't actually seem to be support for this at all. I suggest you file a bug.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Jun 20, 2007 at 17:27 UTC
Put the fully qualified path in quotes: `perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42")'` [download] Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by mishikal (Novice) on Jun 20, 2007 at 17:29 UTC
`[root@build .cpanplus]# perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("/P/PM/PMQS/Compre +ss-Zlib-1.42")' [ERROR] No such module '/P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42'` [download] Still doesn't work. `perl -MCPANPLUS -e 'install("Compress::Zlib")'` [download] continues to work, but gets the latest version which I need to avoid.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules by mishikal (Novice) on Jun 20, 2007 at 17:42 UTC
Corion found it can be done with CPAN at least: `perl -MCPAN -e "install(qq(P/PM/PMQS/Compress-Zlib-1.42.tar.gz))"` [download] Thanks!	[reply] [d/l]