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Thread: Some fun with PPM Automatically install modules when needed
Message: 001_0433_0025
From: Jan Dubois <JanD@ActiveState.com>
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I've been hanging out last night with a couple fellow Activators at
SteamWorks (no, it's not a gym, it's a brewpub). Among our usual
brilliant ideas (solving world hunger by boiling the ocean), we also came
up with a genuinely interesting one:
Why do we have to install modules on the local machine? When a program
tries to load a module and cannot find it, ActivePerl should be "smart"
enough to just go out to the PPM repository and install it on its own if
it cannot find it locally.
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Thread: Some fun with PPM Automatically install modules when needed
Message: 001_0434_0001
From: "Justin Rogers" <justin@mlstoday.com>
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I think that should be sufficient though. This is more of an Admin type
tool, wherein we make little shortcuts for others to run Perl Scripts.
If we need to specify modules on the command line then we add:
I am assuming that will work, unless the load order of the modules isn't
necessarily sequential based on command line input.
Justin Rogers
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