On Feb 11, 2008, at 1:20 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I believe you want to send this along to the CPAN bug tracker. perl-
qa is for quality assurance (testing) issues.
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=CPAN
But it's trivial to do yourself.
use CPAN;
for my $name (@ARGV) {
my $mod = CPAN::Shell->expand("Module", $name);
unless( $mod ) {
warn "Unknown module $name. Aborting.\n";
last;
}
next if $mod->uptodate; # already up to date
unless( CPAN::Shell->install($mod) ) {
warn "Installing $name failed. Aborting.\n";
last;
}
}
p1: thanks to the various responders for advice, and for pointing to
the rt.cpan.org URL.
p2: the above demonstration code is reasonable, as is, but does not
take into account
the problem if $mod has a requirement for Foo::Bar which in turn
requires Bob::Jones.
And the failure with Bob::Jones does not bubble back up to the
'install($mod)'...
so that it can be trapped and the process aborted.
as an illustration of one that I ran into:
<<
Warning: Prerequisite 'Test::Compile => 0.07' for 'U/US/USERPUBS/
OurModuleRedacted-2.06.tar.gz' failed when processing 'M/MA/MARCEL/
Test-Compile-0.08.tar.gz' with 'make => NO cannot resolve circular
dependency'. Continuing, but chances to succeed are limited.
>>
it would be simpler if that failure could cause the cpan utility to
stop right, for us to figure out and fix.
a.f.hampe
