On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:48:06PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Hmm... I like it. It took me a good 6 months before I learned how to use > CPAN. I don't see how your proposal is that different from: > > alias cpan='perl -MCPAN -e shell'
CPAN.pm already installs a cpan program for you that's exactly that. schwern@blackrider:/usr/local/src/CPAN/CPAN-1.61$ cat cpan #!/usr/bin/perl use CPAN; shell; As for the rest of the message, this all seems to already exist, in one form or another, in the CPAN shell or CPANPLUS shell. If you want to see a better CPAN shell, don't wait for Perl 6! Help the CPANPLUS folks out now! http://cpanplus.sourceforge.net/ > But I get the idea. Someone (well, you've inspired me now, so I) could > write a perl5 equivilent, because command line is quite nice. I'll see > how it flies with my next class. > > More comments below. > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Miko O'Sullivan wrote: > > > [This seems like a good time to post something that's been on my mind for > > some time.] > > Sure. It's been pretty dull around here. > > > DETAILS > > > > A few brief philosphical points: > > > > 1) People like languages that have tons of built-in > > doohickeys. See PHP and Java. > > See Perl 5 (though PHP and Java far exceed it, in doohickeys) > > > 2) Instead of a huge standard library, a really easy to use CPAN > > client allows programmers to have the world of modules almost > > as easily as built-in, and with the advantage of up-to-date-ness > > and quantity. > > Indeed. And it should be _really_ easy to install to a different source > tree and have Perl use it. I want more modules on systems I don't > administrate, and asking for them is a pain. > > > The command above would ask the user if they want to install using the > > current directory as the root of library tree, and is also mentions that if > > they want to specify another dir they can use this command: > > > > cpan --lib ~/lib load Date::EzDate > > Hmm... yeah, I think that's as easy as library root's gonna get. I like > C<install> better than C<load>, though. <snip> -- This sig file temporarily out of order.
