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Thursday December 27, 2007
09:59 PM

minicpan+cpaninject

[ #35220 ]

Just thinking out loud. I have minicpan to mirror to my laptop, to whit I point my cpan shell, and all of my Parallels guest OS CPAN shells to install dists.

Then there's cpaninject, which allows me to inject a dev version into my local CPAN cache, but what I really need is to inject into my minicpan mirror for all to use.

I see the options to set destination directories in CPAN::Inject. I can write a script that groks the same settings minicpan uses to find a mirror directory. Seems like I wouldn't be the only one to want to do this.

What about instead, a new option to minicpan itself?

minicpan -i my-dist-0.01.tar.gz that injects into the mirror?


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  • CPAN::Mini::Inject was the original inspiration for CPAN::Inject, and does exactly what are talking about.

    It drops modules into the mini-cpan mirror and updates the index files.
    • Heh...and you were even there on irc... sigh. :-)

    • I changed my mind. No offense to the author, but it's old (2005) and it's over complicated compared to CPAN::Inject. It doesn't even read the same config that minicpan uses (~/.minicpan):

      mcpani will search the following four places in order:

          * file pointed to by the environment variable MCPANI_CONFIG
          * $HOME/.mcpani/config
          * /usr/local/etc/mcpani
          * /etc/mcpani

      I still vote that CPAN::Mini/minicpan add a -i that simply sets CPAN::Inject->sources f

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