At 12:17 pm -0500 25/12/05, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:39 AM, Tristan Mendoza wrote:
...the perl libs, is there a best method of getting those to auto
update with cpan or something? I suppose it might be somesort of
cronjob or something.
What most folks (myself included) do is basically just follow the
"if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. If I find a bug in a
module, or need a function that isn't present in the version I have,
I'll check the online docs for that module at
<http://search.cpan.org>. Then, if a newer version fixes the bug
and/or adds the function I need, then I'll update the module.
Other folks, with less knowledge but a craving for the very latest of
hundreds of things they neither understand nor use, type r at the
cpan prompt and install them all:
Eremita:~ jd$ sudo cpan
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.8)
ReadLine support enabled
cpan> r
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /Users/jd/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 02:08:38 GMT
Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file
Class::Autouse 1.21 1.22
A/AD/ADAMK/Class-Autouse-1.22.tar.gz
Params::Util 0.07 0.08
A/AD/ADAMK/Params-Util-0.08.tar.gz
WWW::Search::Monster 1.02 1.03
C/CR/CRAIGK/WWW-Search-Monster-1.03.tar.gz
151 installed modules have no parseable version number
cpan> install Class::Autouse Params::Util WWW::Search::Monster
JD
