Hi David $many x $thanx for the detailed reply.
More below. On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 20:39 -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Ron Savage <r...@savage.net.au> wrote: [snip] > > o Off-line: For those of us who work on machines with no mini CPAN and > > no internet access, I assume this mechanism will be self-contained, in > > that everything will 'just work' without that access? Yes? > > As an end-user, it will "work", but of course, if you're offline and > have no minicpan, how are you even downloading the distribution to > install it in the first place? Manually, of course, distro-by-distro. I work, without a compiler, deep inside Australia's phone and internet company Telstra. Just a couple of weeks ago I managed to use a compiler on a test machine to compile Perl, for the first time (at work) in 3 long years. [snip] > (Side editorial -- I can't fathom why you would be developing offline > without a minicpan. It's so easy to set up and only about a gig. I > love being on an airplane at 30k feet and finding I want some module > and being able to install it right then and there.) Well, I'm developing code for Telstra. I help manage their 15,000 (sic) network routers... If I discern something worth bundling for CPAN in what I'm doing, I write it from scratch at home. -- Ron Savage r...@savage.net.au http://savage.net.au/index.html
