No need to use LWP. You can call CPAN directly:
use CPAN;
CPAN::install("Some::Module");
But why stop at writing a standalone script? How about a Devel:: module
that watches for a failed require() call, installs the missing module,
and continues? :)
-- Jeremy
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 13:31, Ranga Nathan wrote:
> I had a horror weekend trying to satisfy all the dependencies for
> XML::XSLT. Despite the best efforts of authors and admins, it took a long
> time.
>
> It should be possible to compile a dependency tree for all the modules so
> it can be viewed or programmatically accessed. CPAN tries to do this to
> some extent but relies on the docs.
>
> Given a module, we should be able to do some magic with LWP::UserAgent (I
> assume CPAN to be an authoritative source).
>
> Someone may already have done this.
>
> Any ideas?
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