[prog] How to find perl modules if CPAN doesn't know

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 02:48:54PM +0200, Wolfgang Petzold wrote:
> So obviously perl 5.005_03 is lacking the Test::More package. A CPAN
> search for Test::More didn't return anything useful to me. (At least I
> didn't see anything useful.) The Test/More.pm out of my 5.8.0 installation
> says "use 5.004", so I suppose if I got one it would work with 5.005_03.
> Just copying the file seemed a quick but probably very dirty way.

Well, looking at http://search.cpan.org does indeed find a Test::More
module, as part of the Test::Simple package.  I suspect the reason you
didn't find it in your search is that Test::More is actually part of the
perl 5.8.0 distribution, wheras before 5.8.0 it was a separate optional
module.  So I suggest you go to cpan, download the Test::Simple package,
and install that on your production server by hand, if using the CPAN
module to install it won't work.

Kathryn Andersen
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