Whenever I try to install shit with CPAN, it spends forever downloading files and writing all sorts of data. Then at the end it's like, it didn't work. Even worse, it leaves everything it downloaded and wrote.
How the fuck does this always happen?
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Anonymous2012-09-23 0:58
because they didn't follow javascript's package design
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Anonymous2012-09-23 1:18
CPAN has problems for me too. I'm using Strawberry Perl on Windows and I had a separate GCC earlier in the path, which caused linker errors and made installations fail. If the compiler you're using is different from the one used to compile Perl, it could fail. Even different Perl versions might cause problems since some things change, especially if they rely on the B package and XS. Another thing that bugs me is that there's no way to tell CPAN that a certain package is broken, so it tries to reinstall it each time and makes Perl segfault.
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Anonymous2012-09-23 13:41
>>1
Use cpanm. Ues you'll probably have to install it with cpan.
>>3
Try DWIM Perl. And for the love of glob stop using XS modules (look for 'pure' alternatives. They exist for virtually everything.)
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Anonymous2012-09-24 1:08
CPAN is buggy as fuck. Also, why does it insist on showing me each of the 10 thousand fucking operations it is doing? I don't care. Just tell me why you failed. And it doesn't even do that.