cpan

I installed a CPAN module like this: cpan Acme According to the output, the installation was successful: Running install for module 'Acme' ... All tests successful. Files=2, Tests=3, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr 0.00 sys + 0.04 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.06 CPU) Result: PASS INGY/Acme-1.11111111111.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- OK Running make install Manifying 1 pod document Installing /home/foo/perl5/lib/perl5/Acme.pod Installing /home/foo/perl5/lib/perl5/Acme.pm Installing /home/foo/perl5/man/man3/Acme.3pm Appending installation info to /home/foo/perl5/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal

I have a Perl script that has two dependencies that exist in CPAN. What I'd like to do is have the script itself prompt the user to install the necessary dependencies so the script will run properly. If the user needs to enter in some kind of authentication to install the dependencies that's fine: what I'm trying to avoid is the following workflow: Run script -> Watch it fail -> Scour CPAN aimlessly -> Lynch the script writer Instead I'm hoping for something like: Run script -> Auto-download script dependencies (authenticating as necessary) -> Script succeeds -> Buy the script writer a beer

I want make a module for my own "default use", e.g.: use My::perldefs; with the following content (mostly based on tchrist's post.) use 5.014; use strict; use features qw(switch say state); no warnings; use warnings qw(FATAL closed threads internal debugging pack substr malloc unopened portable prototype inplace io pipe unpack regexp deprecated exiting glob digit printf utf8 layer reserved parenthesis taint closure semicolon); no warnings qw(exec newline); use utf8; use open qw(:std :utf8); use charnames qw(:full); use feature qw(unicode_strings); use Encode qw(encode decode); use Unicode: