[freeside] Documentation

Kristian Hoffmann khoff at pc-intouch.com
Sat Jan 13 06:09:27 PST 2001


Yes but the CPAN module will automagically compile and install all the
modules for people with limited experience using perl.  I don't really see
finding the modules on cpan as a problem for new users but rather the
process of compiling and installing.  Updating a list of current links to
the latest versions of the modules can get tiresome. 

-Kristian

On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Jason Spence wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:06:55PM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann developed
> a new theory of relativity and: 
> 
> > perl -MCPAN -pe 'install "Bundle::Freeside"'
> > 
> > Doesn't get much more complicated than that.  Ivan, any idea how to make a
> > bundle on cpan?
> 
> Hey, that's a great idea, Kristian :)  Except that I never had to
> double-quote the package name, but I'm not going to nitpick.
> 
> I still think that it would be a good idea to have a superpackage with
> the tarballs of all the modules available for ready installation.  If
> nothing else, it should be faster to download all of the modules in a
> big tarball versus each individually using the CPAN module.
> 
>  - Jason
> 




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