In article <[email protected]>, (Andreas J. Koenig) <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:24:26 -0500, David Golden <[email protected]> > >>>>> said: > > > When I looked at this for a question on stackoverflow, I concluded that > > the thing to do was > > check $mod->uptodate rather than rely on the return value of install. > > > my $mod = CPAN::Shell->expand("Module", "Module::Name::Here"); > > > if ( ! $mod->uptodate ) { > > > $mod->install; > > die "Problems installing" unless $mod->uptodate; > > > } > > Yes, and that's even in the manpage: > > Note that install() gives no meaningful return value. See uptodate(). Yes, I know about that part, but there's also all of the possible messages it might print. I'd like to capture those to see if I can suss out what went wrong. I'd like to document those diagnotistics to. :)
