CPAN (was Re: [Israel.pm] The future of Perl)

[Oron Peled]

On Thursday 22 January 2004 16:30, Jason Elbaum wrote:
> Add to that a further problem: I sometimes write Perl code to be 
> exported to remote installation sites. I can't necessarily rely on which 
> subversion of Perl is available there, let alone expect them to install 
> CPAN modules just to run my code. They're users, not sysadmins. Result: 
> I rarely use CPAN in my release code.

Bundle the extra modules as part of your installation procedure.

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