On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:53:56 +0100, Ben Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> Personally, I wonder how many authors use it because of the bundling > >> capability and how many use it for the simple declarative syntax for > >> Makefile.PL. > > > 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. > > <shamelessplug> > > You should try > > /path/to/perl^Wcpan . # <--- the last character is a dot > > instead. More than 22 strokes less to type and no shift key. > > > Of course, if someone were to make all that work using M::B as the > > backend instead of EU::MM, I would be perfectly happy. Probably more so, > > as then extending M::I wouldn't require messing around with EU::MM's > > mess and the hacks required to make M::I work on top of that. > > cpan works with EUMM and MB and MI. > > </plug>
Excuse me? and you kept this information to yourself all those years? BTW Could I somehow install all the dependencies of a module but not the module itself? thanks and regards Gabor
