[KLUG Members] Best place to find/download perl modules...

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > If your on a platform that supported by Red Carpet you can activate the
> > opencarpet service (www.opencarpet.org) and almost all perl modules are
> > available, and it seems less destructive than using cpan (nothing runs
> > off an compiles anything).
> 'splain that one to me please.  Why in the world would acquiring/installing 
> new perl modules require compiling?  I thought perl modules were basically 
> just scripts...
> Forgive me if I'm betraying too much ignorance.

Beats me,  install some packages via cpan and just watch the spider-web of
events that can ensue.  The "why" is pretty much left up to you to decipher from
not terribly lucid messages and package names.  Install via Red Carpet, and it
states clearly that "I'm installing X & Y because Z requires them, and you don't
already have them"  and then you can say yes or no.  Say no, go back and look at
the description of X or/and Y, etc...  If there is a conflict it stops and
clearly says what is in conflict.

I was thinking of making bumperstickers that said "Perl; just say No!",  but
with Open Carpet Perl is almost managable;  so now I'm thinking of
bumperstickers that say "CPAN; just say No!"  I'll put it next to my "Ximian
RULZ!" one.