Re: What am I doing wrong? A bad end-user experience

On 9/11/26 7:04 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On 12.09.26 00:25, Michael Conrad wrote:
>>
>> To clarify, I'm suggesting that each time someone installs a perl 
>> module with CPAN.pm it would leave the .tar.gz in a cache directory 
>> within ~/ perl5/ and also write the name of what was installed in 
>> some sort of log.  That log could be replayed on a new version of 
>> perl using the same original files, and very likely get a user back 
>> to where they left off. The process of this re-installation could be 
>> a built-in feature of CPAN.pm
> The log thing sounds a lot like 'perldoc perllocal'.
>
> Log + replay built into CPAN sounds like the (underdocumented) 
> autobundle feature. See 'cpan -a' and 'autobundle' in perldoc CPAN.

Except "perllocal" doesn't document file names.  I mean something more 
simple, like a text file of bare filenames one per line that you could 
pipe into CPAN.  perllocal could help you re-fetch them from CPAN I 
guess, using module name and version number.  That's an alternative 
solution, and perhaps closer to already implemented, but not quite what 
I'm proposing.

-Mike C