X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790701090912t71c9c3f6v38f4a1141619ad24@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:12:48 +0000 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: activestate perl on cygwin In-Reply-To: <45A3C4D6.F4A71EC7@dessent.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1168360081 DOT 45a3c291af993 AT easymail-old DOT hol DOT gr> <45A3C4D6 DOT F4A71EC7 AT dessent DOT net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 1/9/07, Brian Dessent wrote: > moka at hol dot gr wrote: > > > > But how do you then install modules? Just like in unix from the tarballs > > that are intended for unix? > > Essentially, yes. Just run CPAN (perl -MCPAN -e shell) and type > "install Foo::Bar" just as you would on any unix system. You don't have > to actually know or care about tarballs, CPAN does all that for you. One caveat. If you are behind a proxy server that requires authentication, ActiveState's PPM install tools are much easier to get reliably working than the various command-line tools that CPAN uses (wget, lynx, ncftp, Net::FTP, etc). -Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/