On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:16:49PM +0000, Voß, Jakob wrote:
Hi,
This question is not about functionality but usability.
I wonder whether there are any plans or objections to include cpanminus in core and to deprecate the cpan command line client.
Hi,
This question is not about functionality but usability.
I wonder whether there are any plans or objections to include cpanminus in core and to deprecate the cpan command line client.
deprecate it, even if there are other tools that are more popular now.
The notion of including a very lightweight command-line cpan client in core
is interesting, but it would have to be written first... cpanm is not quite
lightweight enough :)
Having cpanm with perl by default would definitely increase usability of perl and perl applications. Also cpanfiles are much easier to understand than for instance Makfile.PL.
I'd much prefer a cpan client parse META.json directly than cpanfile (whichis not parsable - it must be executed to be understood). Also, there's the
problem of dynamic prerequisites, which can only be determined by executing
some code (but META.json might be "good enough" in a lot of cases).
