install whole CPAN ?

[Alexander Oberhuber]

When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was wondering -
isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of installing them in one
big move? Maybe some CD-ISO archive file, and an autoinstaller (for Linux:
Suse 10)? Anything like that?

[John Bokma]

[email]aloh@x-mail.net[/email] (Alexander Oberhuber) wrote:

> When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was
> wondering - isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of
> installing them in one big move? Maybe some CD-ISO archive file, and
> an autoinstaller (for Linux: Suse 10)? Anything like that?

<[url]http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q=local+cpan+group%[/url]
3Acomp.lang.perl.modules>

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[harryfmudd [AT] comcast [DOT] net]

Alexander Oberhuber wrote:

> When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was wondering -
> isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of installing them in one
> big move? Maybe some CD-ISO archive file, and an autoinstaller (for Linux:
> Suse 10)? Anything like that?
>

This may not be a good idea, because there is no mechanism to prevent
conflicts on module names. For example, the SOAP-Lite distribution
contains a module called SOAP::Packager. But so does the SOAP
distribution. Are they interchangeable? Don't bet on it.

Tom Wyant

[H.Merijn Brand]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:39:02 +0200, Alexander Oberhuber <aloh@x-mail.net>
wrote:

> When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was wondering -
> isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of installing them
> in one big move? Maybe some CD-ISO archive file, and an autoinstaller
> (for Linux: Suse 10)? Anything like that?

You can't, unless you have all third party products installed that some
modules
are written for to support: DBD-*** (Oracle, Unify, Ingres, Informix, ....)
is
maybe the best example

[Bart Lateur]

Alexander Oberhuber wrote:

>When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was wondering -
>isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of installing them in one
>big move?

Wow, you'll need a lot of disk space for your perl distro, then. And
lots of patience before it's all over.

Anyway, instead of *installing* it all, you could start by getting the
most recent versions off CPAN and have your own CPAN mirror, on CD for
example. Search for mini-CPAN.

<http://www.google.com/search?q=mini-CPAN>

That way, you can always (connected to the internet, or not) and likely
more quickly, install any module you want.

--
Bart.

[Peter Scott]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:57:44 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:39:02 +0200, Alexander Oberhuber <aloh@x-mail.net>
> wrote:

>> When I was thinking about installing more CPAN modules, I was wondering -
>> isn't there a way of getting *all* CPAN modules and of installing them
>> in one big move?

>
> You can't, unless you have all third party products installed that some
> modules
> are written for to support: DBD-*** (Oracle, Unify, Ingres, Informix, ...)
> is maybe the best example

OTOH, it would make a great lightning talk. Sort of the Perl version of
"Supersize Me" :-)

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