Re: [MacPerl] CPAN for MacPerl, anyone?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 11:22:58AM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
} 
} 1.  You should have environment variables set for:
}     EDITOR (four-char creator ID, like R*ch or ttxt; if not present,
}         will try R*ch, ALFA, and ttxt in succession)
}     HOME (I set mine as my prefs folder; this is where the cpan files
}         wll be kept)

Ouch.  How about changing this to CPAN or CPANHOME?  (Or is it this
way because of portability?)

} 
} 5.  You need plenty of RAM.  I have 20MB for mine, less is probably
}     OK, I dunno.

The new Archive::Tar, 0.20, might help there.

} 
} 7.  You probably should use my CPAN::Config, and set your prefs by hand.
}     Note that for build_dir, cpan_home, and keep_source_where, these
}     should match your value of $ENV{HOME}.  Other than those three
}     settings, the only others you might want to change will be urllist
}     and wait_list, probably.
} 
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