Re^3: Webreaper - is it any good?

Did you try clicking the link to the file on the page you did not link to properly? You know, the link that almost every page on CPAN has, below the word "Download" on the right hand side? Perhaps you should learn how to use these tools effectively.

cpan[1]> ls bdfoy
...
7441 2004-09-25 BDFOY/webreaper-0.31.tar.gz
..
cpan[2]> install BDFOY/webreaper-0.31.tar.gz
[download]

Update: ...or even just cpan[1]> install http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BD/BDFOY/webreaper-0.31.tar.gz

Martin

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Re^4: Webreaper - is it any good? by bart (Canon) on Dec 17, 2007 at 12:38 UTC
Can you please explain why in the CPAN shell, both `install webreaper` [download] nor `i /webreaper/` [download] fail to find anything? I'm with Win on this issue, it's not our job to first find out who this module is registered to, or how to spell his user name, and then tell CPAN to look into his directory, and all that just to find its complete distribution name. This is not how things are usually done. This is why we have computers.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Webreaper - is it any good? by shmem (Chancellor) on Dec 17, 2007 at 12:52 UTC
it's not our job to first find out who this module is registered to It's not a module. That's why it is not on the module list available to the CPAN shell. There are many things on CPAN worth both using and learning from which aren't available via the CPAN shell. It's then our job to find out other ways to get and install them - TIMTOWTDI. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^6: Webreaper - is it any good? by bart (Canon) on Dec 17, 2007 at 13:16 UTC
It's not a module. That's why it is not on the module list available to the CPAN shell. Thanks, that makes sense, at least, technically. It's not ideal, though. CPAN, at least in my expectations, is supposed to find everything available on CPAN, and not just the modules. So when searching for something, it should check more than just the modules list. After all, it does find it when you ask for BDFOY's stuff. So, why can't it just scan that list too? (I'm guessing it must be either the authors' list, or the dist list.) Oh, I know. "Patches welcome." :)	[reply]
Re^5: Webreaper - is it any good? by marto (Cardinal) on Dec 17, 2007 at 13:00 UTC
In addition to what shmem said "it's not our job to first find out who this module is registered to, or how to spell his user name" Surely this is a moot point because the URL (where you can download tar.gz file) that he posted returns all of this information? Update: Also see my update to Re^3: Webreaper - is it any good? Martin	[reply]
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