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Re: perl modules ?



On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 07:05:56PM -0500, Greg Lopp wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:44:24PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> 
> Or use the CPAN module to download, build, test, install these
> packages.  The interface leaves a little to be desired, but it
> does have some dependency checking.  Start with 
> $ perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
> to configure default behaviour and what servers to use.  Once
> that's finished, "install Text::CSV_XS" from the cpan prompt.

I've heard bad things about CPAN. For a friend of mine, it tried to
upgrade his perl version, died partway through, and left him with no
working perl at all. No thank you.

Mike

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