On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:48:45PM +0000, Amias Channer wrote:
> Would it be so wrong to wedge cpan into the module loader so that if you
> use Some::Module and it doesn't exist perl can download and install
> to /tmp the missing modules . Obviously this isn't going to be good for
> production but it could be enabled by a pragma i.e use clusterfuck
It would be *terribly* wrong, but this'll get you started ...
package autocpan;
push @INC, sub {
local @INC = grep { !ref($_) } @INC;
my $filename = $_[1];
$filename =~ s/\.pm$//;
$filename =~ s/\//::/g;
eval 'use CPAN';
CPAN::install("$filename") && eval "use $filename";
};
--
David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence
You know you're getting old when you fancy the
teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
-- Paul M in uknot
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