At 04:28 PM 8/2/00 -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>Peter Scott [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
>*>
>*>Wow, great!
>
>Shucks, it isn't that exciting :)
>
>*>Some mention of perl -MCPAN would seem like a good idea...?
>
>I considered that...hmm. What if I took off the last paragraph of 'what is
>CPAN?' that mentions CPAN.pm and make a section of it's own like 'What is
>CPAN.pm and how do I use it to install modules?' or should I just make it
>part of 'How do I install modules?'
The latter. I think all you need is to say something like
Installing a new module can be as simple as typing
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Chocolate::Belgian'
and the L<CPAN.pm documentation> tells you how. If you
are averse to having something take that much control,
or it otherwise doesn't work for you, the L<perlmodinstall>
instructions will spell it out in more familiar terms.
Finally, if you're using ActivePerl on Windows, the
L<PPM> (Perl Package Manager) fulfills the same function as
CPAN.pm.
because at the moment, the reader has no guide to just how easy the process
can be, and after reading perlmodinstall they may be too exhausted to read
CPAN.pm :-)
Incidentally, does perl -MCPAN work on the Macintosh, or are you stuck with
what perlmodinstall says?
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
