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>>>>> On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:51:42 -0500, James E Keenan <jkeen_via_google@yahoo.com> said: > I'm wondering if my diagnosis of the following annoying problem is correct. > When I use the CPAN shell to install a distribution which does not > include a package with the name of the distribution, the shell > immediately tells me to use the 'i /distroname/' to find objects with > matching identifiers. > If information on the distribution is located, then I have to guess as > to which module within the distribution is one that I don't have > up-to-date and which will therefore trigger the shell to proceed with > installation. > Example: Just now I saw on perl.cpan-testers that Ken Williams had > uploaded a distribution named PathTools. As you did know the authors name, you could have asked immediately cpan> ls kwilliams and would have got the exact distribtion name: 112124 2005-11-18 KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz From there you would have just said cpan> install KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz and would have got it. Alternatively (my favorite) you could have used the 'r' command and it would have reported something like this: Cwd 3.05 3.14 K/KW/KWILLIAMS/PathTools-3.14.tar.gz and then an 'install Cwd' would have had success. > I checked it out at search.cpan.org and decided to install it. > Here is an edited transcript of my shell session: > [...snip...] > So I eventually get the shell to work ... but I really don't see why > it couldn't handle 'install PathTools' right from the get-go? > Anyone know why? Is there a workaround? Thanks. CPAN shell is very cautious not to install the wrong thing. It wants to be absolutely sure that it installs the thing that you wanted. Witness: cpan> install /^Cwd$/ Sorry, install with a regular expression is not supported I don't think many people would appreciate getting something installed they didn't explicitly ask for. -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next