CPANPLUS is a library offering an enhanced API by which to interact with CPAN mirrors.<br><br>You can access these new features programmatically via CPANPLUS::Backend, or, if you're just looking for regular old CPAN-shell functionality, you have a choice of any of the options in the CPANPLUS::Shell::* namespace.<br>
<br>You'll get the default shell by simply issuing the command - 'cpanp'. Once at the cpanp prompt ('cpanp>') type 'h', just like the classic cpan shell, for a help menu...<br><br>So why bother? Well, it's really a matter of preference and whether you think you need the additional functionality.<br>
<br>Do you ever find yourself wanting to uninstall a module and reinstall a previous version in a simple and automated way? Did you ever find yourself wanting to use a simple shell to install a module's tar.gz bundle from local disk (or from a custom, non CPAN mirror, URL) without all the manual invocation, dependency checking, and having to be aware of the module's build system intricacies such as whether it used ExtUtils::Makemaker or Module::Build? Then maybe CPANPLUS is for you...<br>
<br>As always, there's an awful lot of documentation available through your local CPAN mirror. Try 'perldoc CPANPLUS::Shell::Default' for a quick start on the default shell...<br><br><br>Hope that helps,<br>m<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Tim McDaniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tmcd@panix.com">tmcd@panix.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For the first time in a while, I went into cpan and did an upgrade.<br>
It installed or upgraded CPANPLUS. I'm finding it hard to Goole more<br>
than the most basic info that it's a Perl package manager (or deep<br>
details that I don't care about yet).<br>
<br>
Should I be using CPANPLUS instead of CPAN? How would I use it to<br>
update the installed Perl modules?<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
-- <br>
Tim McDaniel, <a href="mailto:tmcd@panix.com" target="_blank">tmcd@panix.com</a><br>
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