From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-07T04:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Call for standardised package installation procedure

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:52:28AM +0900, John Johnson wrote:
> ruby -rcran -e shell
> cran> install foofoo
>   Retrieving foofoo...
>   foofoo requires bitbang
>   foofoo requires barbar
>   barbar requires snickdorfer
>   foofoo requires quantos 1.2.3 currently you have 1.2.2, updating
>   blantic 2.0.4 is not compatible with quantos 1.2.3, updating to 2.1.3
>   installing...
>   finished
> cran>
> 
> Ahh, to dream...

Don't dream too hard. I presume you are alluding to the CPAN command-line
utility; I could never get the #$%! thing to work. On two occasions I've
wasted an hour trying to get it to do anything useful, and given up in
disgust. So I always end up installing Perl packages by hand anyway.

At least they have a consistent interface for manual installation:
   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   sudo make install

Just a convention like that would be very useful in its own right.

Regards,

Brian.