"Barry Treahy, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/25/2003 02:16:50 PM:This is great news, thank you. I'm new to Perl on VMS, not to Perl in general, and I've already completed the 5.8.0 build on a VAX running VMS 7.2. The problem I'm running into, appears to be VMS related. For example, a simple CPAN install like:
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::DBI'
or
perl -MCPAN -e shell
does nothing. It goes off and returns back nothing, no results, no errors... I did find that DCL symbols can get in the way, such as having INSTALL defined:
CHARON$ sh sym install INST*ALL == "$SYS$SYSTEM:INSTALL/COMMAND"
It may not be the case that CPAN.pm works on VMS as well as it does on other non-VMS systems. You might need to mess with your netconfig setttings a bit, but the big portability hurdle would be that terminal drivers implicitly called by CPAN (perhaps Term::Readline?) do not play well with VMS terminals (if I recall the problems specific to CPAN correctly - the situation might be different nowadays).
The major hurdle to me was - when I played with it on 5.8.0 - that the names of all the downloaded files are not ODS2 compliant and none of the ftp methods my perl found translated them to something sensible. So while cpan worked in principle I couldn't use it because it couldn't store the tar files. Maybe this is better with 5.8.1 or I need some better download method. I'll post details should I play with it again.
Michael
