Jos Boumans, XS4ALL
Ann Barcomb, -
Track: Perl
Date: Thursday, July 25
Time: 1:45pm - 2:30pm
Location: Grande Ballroom A
CPANPLUS is a new module. It was born in September of 2001, after that year's
YAPC::EU in response to general unhappiness about CPAN.pm. It aims to be a rewrite, and in time a replacement of the current CPAN.pm, but in a completely OO model, adding features unknown to the current CPAN.pm, such as module uninstall, multiple shells and so on.
Thanks to it's structure, it allows easy scripting as well, making the work of system administrators responsible for maintaining a perl installation, a lot easier. Not in the least, it aims to fix various bugs of CPAN.pm as well as being very modular in its build setup, thus allowing many plug-ins. For example, with a plug-in to the RT bug tracking system, CPANPLUS could send in automatic bug reporting in case a module failed to install.
Some more information about the module can be found on the project's homepage.
The following topics are discussed:
- Reason for creating CPANPLUS
- Improvements of CPANPLUS vs CPAN.pm
- The user-interface 'Shell'
- Sample usage of 'Shell'
- The script-interface 'Backend'
- Sample code utilizing 'Backend'
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