How to install Perl modules

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 18:26, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:41 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> The cpan2port script makes it very easy to make ports for CPAN  
>> modules.
>
> Was not aware of this.  Is this supposed to be in macports?  I do  
> not find it.

There is no port to install it yet. Would be nice if somebody made one.

> What prevents ports from ripping through every single perl module  
> and with this and getting them all in and opened as tickets, so  
> people can test them for working or not?


I suppose we add ports as we need them (be they for perl modules or  
any other kind of software). No point adding and maintaining ports for  
software that is obsolete or otherwise not in use by anybody.