Op een grimmige winterdag (Friday 04 March 2005 21:47),schreef Michael G
Schwern:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:24:21PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> > At 1:13 AM +0100 3/4/05, Abe Timmerman wrote:
> > >Is there a way to make the CPAN module work on this VAX OpenVMS-V7.2?
> > >
> > >I've hacked the Config.pm and fiddled with CPAN.pm, but I get lost in
> > > the trail...
> > >The first problem seems to be the local-filenames with multiple dots.
> >
> > I've never used it because the effort to get it ported was always a
> > bit more effort than just manually installing whatever extension I
> > was interested in. It would be very nice to have working. Chuck
> > Lane did get a version working some years ago:
>
> Anyone tried CPANPLUS?
I tried to help Jos to get it to work just before the inclusion in blead-core,
but he wants either IPC::Open3 or IPC::Run which both look like a big nono on
VMS.
Good luck,
Abe
--
(*) Before the testing posse is on my case :-) let me preempt them by
saying that fake networks don't really help here. You'll be testing
a fake network. That proves that the module worked on a fake network.
That's great. Like drinking decaffeinated.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi on p5p @ 2001-11-22
