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On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 at 18:37, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > both that list and the other mentions of "but use curl or wget" seem to > forget Windows. Which I admit that I don't know that much about, but my > list of "known unknowns" is already: > Given the existence of Strawberry Perl and the Linux subsystem, building Perl from scratch on Windows seems more like an advanced-user, "you know what you're doing already" situation? Also, if CPAN.pm already use wget/curl if available, and the target objective is more-secure-by-default CPAN installation, seems the only necessary step for core is perhaps to add some CPAN.pm tweaks: refuse HTTP-only downloads by default (needs an override otherwise we make life harder for situations where caching is desirable).Thread Previous | Thread Next