From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 19:53: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3669737B6A4 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 19:53:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-5-224.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.5.224]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA14154; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:52:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19777; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:39:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200003240339.VAA19777@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Vaishali Bham" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: CPAN Module In-reply-to: Message from "Vaishali Bham" of "Thu, 23 Mar 2000 20:06:09 GMT." <20000323200609.552.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:39:50 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Vaishali Bham" writes: > Hi, > > Does FreeBSD allow using CPAN modules like Mail::POP3Client and Mail::send ? I'm only a novice perl user, but I don't understand your question. How would/could FreeBSD *not* allow use of CPAN modules? > If yes, then is there are special modifications needed to setup freebsd or > does it allow you to be used by just installing Perl latest version. Look at the ports collection. Everything that begins with a p5- isn't an Intel Pentium port, its Perl5. Here is a bunch out of /usr/ports/devel/: % cd /usr/ports/devel; ls -dCF p5* p5-AppConfig/ p5-File-Slurp/ p5-Proc-Simple/ p5-BSD-Resource/ p5-File-Sync/ p5-ReadLine-Gnu/ p5-C-Scan/ p5-File-Tools/ p5-ReadLine-Perl/ p5-ConfigReader/ p5-Filter/ p5-Religion/ p5-Curses/ p5-FreezeThaw/ p5-Resources/ p5-Data-Flow/ p5-IO-Stty/ p5-Sort-Versions/ p5-Data-ShowTable/ p5-IO-Tty/ p5-Storable/ p5-Date-Calc/ p5-IO-stringy/ p5-Term-ANSIColor/ p5-Date-Manip/ p5-Include/ p5-Term-Query/ p5-Devel-DProf/ p5-IniConf/ p5-Term-ReadKey/ p5-Devel-Peek/ p5-Locale-PGetText/ p5-Time/ p5-Devel-Symdump/ p5-Locale-gettext/ p5-Time-HiRes/ p5-Errno/ p5-PV/ p5-TimeDate/ p5-File-BasicFlock/ p5-Parse-RecDescent/ p5-TraceFuncs/ p5-File-Lock/ p5-Penguin/ p5-File-MMagic/ p5-Penguin-Easy/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message