Re: [MacPerl] CPAN for MacPerl, anyone?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 11.45 -0500 1999.01.11, Paul J. Schinder wrote:
>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?)

CPAN.pm uses it, my changes do not.  You might be able to avoid problems by
specifying your own directories in CPAN::Config, and then $ENV{HOME} might
never come into use.  Feel free to try it out.  :)

You might want to lobby Andreas to change uses of $ENV{HOME} to
$ENV{CPANHOME} and then do a simple C<$ENV{CPANHOME} ||= $ENV{HOME}> at
initialization.

A greater problem might be that '.cpan' is hardwired in several places.
I've been told that names starting with . on Mac OS are bad, but I forget
why.  I can say that I don't recall ever running into any problems with .
files.


>} 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.

Ah, it does not-in-memory unpacking, or something?

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