I think the one big problem you are going to face is that CPAN.pm itself is not yet auto-configurable.

While we can probably make sensible choices for most of the normal options, the one big killer so far is mirror auto-selection.

You'd need to write a module of some sort (and then bundle it into your script) that is able to deal with the problem of selecting the "best" mirror to use.

This means some form of implementation of the logic needed to find some appropriate set of 10 or 20 mirrors from the 200 or so, find the ones that aren't out of date, then work out the top two or three fastest ones.

In reply to Re: CPAN auto_bootstrap by adamk
in thread CPAN auto_bootstrap by doc_faustroll

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