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Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> writes: > * David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> [2013-06-02 03:10]: >> The "answer" is to point them at "cpan", which auto-configures and -- >> by 5.20 -- doesn't even bother with mirror selection. It will >> bootstrap local::lib as well. Newbies should be able to say "cpan Foo" >> and it will just work -- and give them instructions for how to put >> local::lib in their shell. > > If they download an off-CPAN app that isn’t meant for installing then > they can unpack the tarball and `cpanm --installdeps .`. Does `cpan` > have an equivalent for that? cpan . > For that matter, though less importantly, > does it have `cpanfile` support? How much had the index loading been > optimised – does it download and parse fast enough to be unnoticeable > even on modest machines, and does it fail to die when operating with > limited RAM? The reduced default verbosity is only the most visible > aspect of cpanm, and not unimportant, but far from primary. I think I would accept a patch for that. -- andreasThread Previous | Thread Next