Re: [MacPerl] CPAN.pm and LWP

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 1:29 -0500 2000.07.25, Ken Williams wrote:
>Is the CPAN shell known to have problems fetching with LWP on the Mac?
>Every time I run the shell and it tries to download something, it takes
>20 seconds or so trying to use LWP with an FTP URL, then it gives up and
>uses Net::FTP (and succeeds).

Well, I sometimes see the same thing, I know that much.  I don't know what
the deal is, though.  I have seen LWP work, but I haven't paid much
attention recently, so I dunno.


>By the way, can I safely upgrade to CPAN.pm 1.54, or should I continue
>to use the version (1.50) that comes with cpan-mac?  I see that
>CPAN-testers shows a PASS for 1.54 on MacOS - I suppose that's good
>enough?

I think so.  I never got around to upgrading mt CPAN.pm though.


>By the way, Chris - there's a link on http://pudge.net/cgi-bin/mmp.plx
>that points to http://www.perl.org/cpan-testers/ and I think it should
>point to http://testers.cpan.org/ .

Thanks, fixing now.

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