[MacPerl] CPAN.pm in offline mode?

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

I don't have a modem on my Mac (I have 2 PC's, both WITH a modem, so I
don't need yet another modem, thank you), so the discussion about Chris
Nandor's CPAN.pm port was a bit over my head.

I probably didn't get it quite correctly, but I expect that you ask it
to install a module for you, it connects to a CPAN site, downloads the
necessary files, and then installs them. Right?

Well, obviously, that's not at all usable for me. But I think it's a bit
of a waste not to be able to use any of it at all. Besides, I hate it
when my computer tries to connect to Internet without me explicitely
asking it to do that. After all, this is not America! ;-)

So I wonder if it's functionality couldn't be split into different
parts, so that:

 * It gives you a list of what modules it wants, and then quits;
 * You manually download the modules; or you might get them from a
CD-ROM;
 * You start up CPAN.pm again, and this time you give it the location
for the modules you downloaded. Then, it goes ahead and installs them.

Is this feasable? Anybody else thinks this would be useful?

	Bart.

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