Perl 5.14 ad default, and Irssi to use it

Puneet Kishor punk.kish at gmail.com
Mon Jan 16 16:54:49 PST 2012


On Jan 16, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> We recommend you do not use cpan. 


Why not? I have been using `cpanm` to install all my Perl modules, and have even compiled one from scratch (the `perl Makefile.PL && make && sudo make install` dance) and have not experienced any problem thus far.

So, I am curious as to why the recommendation to not use cpan to install modules.

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Puneet Kishor


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