Quick thoughts: > 2. ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build - Serious! > > HP-UX, and probably other OS's too, do not allow installation of > shared objects when the object already exists and is in use. That > means that all XS modules used by CPAN cannot be installed by CPAN.
This is actually a problem with ExtUtils::Install, I think. The same problem exists on Windows, but EU::I uses a Win32 call to schedule the file for deletion on reboot before replacing it with a new one. I don't know what the answer is for HP-UX, but it's EU::I, not M::B or EU::MM -- which has the extra advantage of having only one place to fix it. > 3. CPAN / CPANPLUS > > FUN! > > My HP-UX 10.20 only has 512 Mb memory :) When LWP and Archive::Tar > are installed, large distributions - like DBD::SQLite - will cause > an "Out of memory!" crash of cpan. When I use other fetch methods > and build from source myself, there is no problem at all. I plan to get CPAN.pm using HTTP::Lite in 5.13, which will solve half the problem. David
