Re: [MacPerl] CPAN.pm and LWP

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 1:29 AM -0500 7/25/00, Ken Williams wrote:
>Hiya,
>
>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).

It must be something particular to your setup if you see it all the 
time. On occasion network or server flakyness will cause this to 
happen on all platforms.
LWP is using Net::FTP for ftp URL's, the only thing I can think of is 
that LWP is setting the timeout shorter than Net::FTP uses by default.

>
>I've got the latest cpan-mac (0.40) and the latest LWP (5.48), with
>MacOS 9.0.4.  About 50 MB of RAM allocated to MacPerl.
>
>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?

Yes, you can upgrade.  Just *don't* 'install Bundle::CPAN' like it 
tells you to.  Simply 'install CPAN'.


>
>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/ .
>
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Paul Schinder
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