Re: [MacPerl] CPAN.pm in offline mode?

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 04.49 -0500 1999.01.29, Bart Lateur wrote:
>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?

Yes.  It does a lot more, too.  Read the docs included in CPAN.pm.  :)

>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;

Gives you a list of modules _what_ wants?

> * 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?

Not necessary!  cpan-mac includes a droplet called installme.  Drop any
tarred and gzipped archive (usually denoted by a .tgz or .tar.gz suffix) on
installme and it will unpack the archive and install the distribution.
Alternatively, unpack it yourself using the also-included untargzipme (or
Stuffit Expander, which is suboptimal :), and drop the folder on installme.

(This is mostly explained already in the readme file for cpan-mac.  :)

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