I gather from the earlier posts, however, that CPAN is not VMS friendly and my results this AM would seem to confirm that; there doesn't appear to be any Unix to VMS name convention translation (ie. 03modlist.data.gz to 03modlist_data.gz). Has anyone started work on this or is the general recommendation to just bag CPAN and manually download the indvidual modules? Just seems like a lot of manual work when dependencies become an issue...
Tell me about it! I had to install Business::ISBN, which in turn required this, that, and the other thing. By the time I was done, it was like 10 modules (some of which were only required during testing). And these were all pure Perl modules, no XS at all. What a pain!
However, I was able to build DBI and DBD::Oracle with almost no problem at all using 5.8.1...
John
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