does CPAN still work?

[Richard Foley]

On Sunday 05 August 2007 23:20, Michael Stillwell wrote:
> Does installing modules via CPAN still work for anyone else?  Over  
> the past few years more and more modules have been failing tests;  
> just about everything needs to be installed via "force" now.
> 
Most things work very smoothly for me, multiple buried dependencies and 
everything.  On the rare occassion when it doesn't work, at least there is 
'force' to fall back on.

I suspect, though, that you may be hitting the deeper problem of module 
authors not writing good enough distributions for general release.  This is 
not a CPAN problem, per se, but a quality control and self-discipline problem 
from the authors themselves...

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Richard Foley
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