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| author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2012-08-18 14:10:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2012-08-18 14:10:03 +0100 |
| commit | 29205e9cdf0a179ed7a2e9401a3b19c8ede062db (patch) | |
| tree | ac9709a7abcefc02523f7fbbe89322d1f03dfd21 | |
| parent | 4cc026083a62a3e603a429b3c13df20d575ea52a (diff) | |
| download | perl-29205e9cdf0a179ed7a2e9401a3b19c8ede062db.tar.gz | |
Tweaks to RMG
Use the simpler syntax for starting the CPAN shell. Remove notes about
needing Unix tools on Windows for CPAN and CPANPLUS when LWP is not
installed: these are not required since the likes of Net::FTP and
HTTP::Tiny are used instead.
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 14 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index 5b7e0e0e08..1af74947b7 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -822,17 +822,13 @@ previous is 5.10.0: find . -type f | sort > /tmp/f2 diff -u /tmp/f[12] -=head4 Test the CPAN client +=head4 Bootstrap the CPAN client Bootstrap the CPAN client on the clean install: - $ bin/perl -MCPAN -e "shell" + $ bin/cpan -If you're running this on Win32 you probably also need a set of Unix -command-line tools available for CPAN to function correctly without -Perl alternatives like LWP installed. Cygwin is an obvious choice.) - -=head4 Install the Inline module and test it +=head4 Install the Inline module with CPAN and test it Try installing a popular CPAN module that's reasonably complex and that has dependencies; for example: @@ -852,10 +848,6 @@ Bootstrap the CPANPLUS client on the clean install: $ bin/cpanp -(Again, on Win32 you'll need something like Cygwin installed, but make sure -that you don't end up with its various F<bin/cpan*> programs being found on -the PATH before those of the Perl that you're trying to test.) - =head4 Install the DBI module with CPANPLUS CPAN Terminal> i DBI |