>>>>> 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.
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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.
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--
andreas
