Re: Looking for a complete grepmail package

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:47:19AM -0400, David Coppit wrote:
> Dan't solution is the best one. You can even tell the CPAN module not to
> prompt you when it wants to install dependent modules. (There's also
> CPAN2, a newer alternative to CPAN.)

one thought - if you are using a system that provides some perl modules
as "packages" (typical of linux distros) or "ports" (bsd systems),
someone may have already set this up for you and all you'll need to do
is use the installation system for these packages/ports.  It should
automatically grab all the perl stuff you need too - if everything's
working properly, sigh.

This next may be obvious but may not be....

Also note if you are using something that you've installed via the CPAN
module, when you upgrade perl you'll have to install it again and it
probably won't happen automatically.   

This is not necessarily true but often is - if you're using a
vendor-supplied perl and they come out with a minor bugfix this probably
won't break cpan installed stuff.

If you're wondering why someone would bother with all this perl module
dependency crap, the reason is that it makes it a LOT easier for someone
like David to write something like grepmail - rather than having to start
from scratch, he can use the building blocks that others have contributed.

danno
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