Force cpanpLUS to not use LWP

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Re: Force cpanpLUS to not use LWP by afoken (Chancellor) on Jul 21, 2011 at 08:45 UTC
Why? What is the problem with LWP? Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re: Force cpanpLUS to not use LWP by zwon (Abbot) on Jul 21, 2011 at 11:05 UTC
`bash$ cpanp s conf prefer_bin 1 \; s save` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Force cpanpLUS to not use LWP by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2011 at 11:14 UTC
Nice thought, but that appears to be related to prefering tar/gzip... to Archive::../Compress::... not wget	[reply]
Re^3: Force cpanpLUS to not use LWP by zwon (Abbot) on Jul 21, 2011 at 11:23 UTC
If you look into source of CPANPLUS::Internals::Fetch you will see that it sets `$File::Fetch::PREFER_BIN` depending on value of `prefer_bin`. Unfortunately after looking into File::Fetch source I see that this is TODO variable and is not actually used. Well, you just need to implement this functionality in File::Fetch ;)	[reply] [d/l] [select]