On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Neil Bowers <n...@bowers.com> wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
>> 2. Smoker script that Installs released version of a module (cpan 
>> Module::Name) since
>> this install the latest instance of released version plus it will take
>> care of the dependencies.
>
> Doing the -t will take care of all of the dependencies, won't it? Certainly 
> seemed to when I was testing my script earlier.
>

I think at newer version of cpan, running cpan -t Module::Name will
roll everything (module + dependencies) into blib (before install),
instead of installing dependencies directly to site/lib.

Never really have the time to test this properly, so I could be wrong.

Andreas Koenig is on this mailing list, he could verify this.

>> Also keep in mind about some really nasty modules out there such as Damian's 
>> Acme-Bleach.
>
> I know it wasn't quite what you were saying, but you made me realise another 
> feature I should add:
>
>         - ignore ACME::*
>
> And I should probably ignore Win32::*, VMS::* etc.
>
> The ACME namespace bugs me (more than it probably should), so I don't want to 
> waste any of my CPU cycles on it :-)
>
> Neil
>

ya, you could drop them names to prefs dir.

http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/Distroprefs&version=5
http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANReporterSmokerLong
https://prefs.cpantesters.org/
example: http://svn.trouchelle.com/perl/cpan/prefs/_stro_win32.yml ->
Win32 only.

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