On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ben Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use it both for the declarative syntax and because it allows me to > type > > /path/to/perl Makefile.PL > make test > > in a dev directory with a fresh install of perl and get all the > dependencies installed for me. Since I keep lots of versions of perl > around and try to test my modules on all of them, this is highly > convenient.
Is that with auto-install? I guess I can see that purpose, though auto-install can be a real annoyance to end-users otherwise. I'd probably do it this way with a recent version of CPAN.pm: $ /path/to/perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> test . No Module::Install or auto-install required. -- David