Re: testing CPAN-ability without CPAN?

Tyler MacDonald wrote:
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>>- Use "CPAN::Mini" to create a local CPAN mirror quasy on the fly.
> 
> 	The problem there is that it mirrors all of CPAN. A lot of
> bandwidth, not exactly a reuseable trick, unless CPAN::Mini has an option to
> mirror only packages X and Y, and all packages that depend on them?

Aside from the suggestion from Thomas Klausner, you could subclass 
CPAN::Mini to do just that. Add Module::Dependency and you should get 
the system up and running rather quickly. I fact, it would probably be a 
really good idea to make the result availlable on CPAN as 
CPAN::Mini::Something. (Ask the modules list for a good namespace choice 
or #perl or Ricardo Signes, the author of CPAN::Mini.)

Steffen