eric-perl wrote at Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:16:45 +0200:
> What the heck is Bundle::CPAN? What is going on? It seems like it's installing a
>completely new
> version of Perl or something. (It wanted to know where my C compiler is and where it
>should
> install stuff!!!)
>From the Documentation of Bundle::CPAN
NAME
Bundle::CPAN - A bundle to play with all the other modules on CPAN
SYNOPSIS
"perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::CPAN'"
CONTENTS
File::Spec
Digest::MD5
Compress::Zlib
Archive::Tar
Bundle::libnet
Term::ReadKey
Term::ReadLine::Perl # sorry, I'm discriminating the ::Gnu module
CPAN::WAIT
CPAN
DESCRIPTION
This bundle includes CPAN.pm as the base module and CPAN::WAIT, a plugin for
the first WAIT based CPAN search engine.
When CPAN installs this bundle it tries immediately to enable Term::ReadLine so
that you do not need to restart your
CPAN session.
Compress::Zlib needs as a prerequisite the zlib library. Currently (January
1998) this library is not shipped with the
Compress::Zlib distribution.
In this bundle Term::ReadLine::Perl is preferred over Term::ReadLine::Gnu
because I expect that it gives less problems
on portability.
Note that all modules in this Bundle are not strict prerequisites to get a
working CPAN.pm. CPAN.pm can work quite well
without the other modules (except for Net::FTP which is really highly
recommended). The other modules are just goodies
that make using CPAN.pm more fun.
Greetings,
Janek
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