[Chicago-talk] CPAN force install through API

[JT Smith]

> }perl -MCPAN -e 'force install BSD::Resource'  (doesn't force)
> perl -MCPAN -e'force("install","BSD::Resource");'
> should do the trick.

That's actually the same as above. But I did it with the quotes and parens just to be 
sure. Same result. Doesn't force.

It turns out I was being killed by an out of date Perl/CPAN on the server I was testing 
on. I was testing on the Perl 5.8.1 that ships with Mac OSX, and for whatever reason 
force has no effect on that. But if I use my custom compiled perl 5.8.6 on OSX, then the 
force works.

Thanks for your help.


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