[Pdx-pm] perl upgrade

[Michael G Schwern]

Lindsey Kuper wrote:
> If I were to, say, just save it on my desktop and then run "install
> ~/Desktop/Snapshot_2008_01_30_00", then CPAN just goes looking out in
> the world for things called that.  Schwern, is there a magic trick I
> don't know?

I thought it was just that it probably doesn't know about ~ expansion, but no, 
it doesn't appear to do filepaths at all.  Nor file URIs.  I put in a wishlist 
request for absolute URIs and file paths.
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32814


CPANPLUS, otoh, will handle local files but it does not appear to understand 
the bundle file.

One similar trick is that you can run "cpan ." in a distribution directory and 
it will install that with the CPAN shell.  Handy if you download a module 
tarball and it turns out to have a bunch of directories.


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