[BristolBathPM] CPANPLUS [was: Meet venue suggestions]

[Peter Haworth]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:15:29 +0000, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 05:48:45PM +0000, Amias Channer wrote:
>
> > Would it be so wrong to wedge cpan into the module loader so that
> > if you use Some::Module and it doesn't exist perl can download and
> > install to /tmp the missing modules . Obviously this isn't going
> > to be good for production but it could be enabled by a pragma i.e
> > use clusterfuck
>
> It would be *terribly* wrong, but this'll get you started ...
>
>   package autocpan;
>   ...

This wheel has already been invented several times before:
CPAN::AutoINC, Module::AutoINC, with Acme::RemoteINC as an
intriguingly daft alternative.

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