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

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