On Jan 3, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
Lynx is neither included with Mac OS X nor required by CPAN.During CPAN's initial setup, I recall a prompt asking where "lynx" and "ncftp" is.
If that's not the case, my mistake.
No mistake, just a minor misunderstanding. ;-)
CPAN can use Lynx to download modules via http, but it will happily use another means of downloading if Lynx isn't available. Likewise, it will use ncftp if it's available, but will work just as well with /usr/bin/ftp if that's all there is. The LWP module is its first choice.
Similarly, CPAN prefers to use the Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib to unroll tarballs, but it will fall back to /usr/bin/tar and /usr/bin/gunzip if the modules aren't available.
sherm--
