c:\test>cpanm Archive::Zip
--> Working on Archive::Zip
Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PH/PHRED/Archive-Zip-1.48.ta
+r.gz ... OK
Configuring Archive-Zip-1.48 ... OK
Building and testing Archive-Zip-1.48 ... OK
Successfully installed Archive-Zip-1.48 (upgraded from 1.45)
1 distribution installed
As you can see, this turned out to be an upgrade. I installed v1.45 back in Dec 2014 via cpan without any errors.
When doing it manually, there's more of a chance of user error. I'm not saying that was the case here.
Using cpan/cpanm is is much easier in terms of the number of steps the user needs to take. I'm sure you know that we Perl programmers are lazy and like to do things with fewer keystrokes. |