Re: CPANPLUS with versioned Modules

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
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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]