> This question suggests a REALLY COOL enhancement:
>
> use url qw{http://somehost/perl_library/};
> use Foo::Bar; # Gets fetched from the URL if it isn't
> found in @INC.
>
> Obviously, LWP gets loaded somewhere along the line. The
> funny thing is,
> it's not at all obvious to me that some variant of this can't be done.
>
I played around with something like this when Perl 5.6 came out (that
version started allowing you to do some extra things with the module
loading) but it was in relation to tar.gz files. I wanted to emulate Java's
Jar functionality, and extended it to include download from the web.
Fortunately, someone with better follow-through had the same idea and came
up with ".par" files and I recently stumbled across it. See this link for
details:
http://www.autrijus.org/par-intro/
I'm definitely planning on getting more familiar with it! There's mention
in that presentation about remote modules being loaded.
jpt
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