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Hey,

Is there any web address that you can purchase CPAN on CD/DVD?

Jon.

In article <>, Jon <>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Is there any web address that you can purchase CPAN on CD/DVD?

Have a look at:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col42.html

"So that got me thinking. If I brought down only the files that were
needed by CPAN .pm to perform the installation of the latest release of
a module, how big would that be? And the answer was wonderfully
surprising: a bit more than 200 meg, which easily fits on a CD-ROM .

Unfortunately, I didn't see any clean, easy-to-use, efficient ``mirror
only the latest modules of the CPAN '' program out there, so I wrote my
own, which I present in[listing one, below]."

cheers,

big

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half a sheep in the other. "Come in", she says, "Hammo's not here.
I hope you like meat.' Sharkey in aus.moto

In article <bigiain->,
spoke thusly...
> In article <>, Jon <>
> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I didn't see any clean, easy-to-use, efficient ``mirror
> only the latest modules of the CPAN '' program out there, so I wrote my
> own, which I present in[listing one, below]."

Try wget. It runs on several unixes and Windows(dos). It can get only
the newest files from a website.

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In article <btf8o2$6gr48$>,
A man <> wrote:

> In article <bigiain->,
> spoke thusly...
> > In article <>, Jon <>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, I didn't see any clean, easy-to-use, efficient ``mirror
> > only the latest modules of the CPAN '' program out there, so I wrote my
> > own, which I present in[listing one, below]."

Errm, actually, Randal wrote that, I just quoted it...
>
> Try wget. It runs on several unixes and Windows(dos). It can get only
> the newest files from a website.

The problem with that approach is that the "older" files have "older"
version numbers, and hence different filenames - wget doesn't cope with
correctly downloading the "newest" version where a cpan directory may
contain something like:

Module::Name-1.0.readme
Module::Name-1.0.tar.gz
Module::Name-1.1.readme
Module::Name-1.1.tar.gz
Module::Name-1.2.readme
Module::Name-1.2.tar.gz
Module::Name-2.0.readme
Module::Name-2.0.tar.gz
Module::Name-2.1.readme
Module::Name-2.1.tar.gz

wget will grab _all_ of them, where you only really need to get the last
two...

cheers,

big

--
'When I first met Katho, she had a meat cleaver in one hand and
half a sheep in the other. "Come in", she says, "Hammo's not here.
I hope you like meat.' Sharkey in aus.moto