where do i find these perl modules??

[Chris]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:11:00 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:

> --On February 24, 2008 3:30:18 PM -0800 Gary Kline
> <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > 	Do we have the following perl modules in ports?
> >
> >         Tk
> >         Encode
> >         Encode::Unicode (Not sure if this is seprate from the Encode
> > module)         Encode::Guess
> >         HTML::Parser
> >         LWP::Simple
> >
> 
> Perl modules, in FreeBSD ports, are usually prepended with a p5- and
> can be found by using make search:
> 
> E.g. cd to /usr/ports and type make search name=p5-Encode
> Port:   p5-Encode-2.20
> Path:   /usr/ports/converters/p5-Encode
> 
> pauls at utd59514# make search name=p5-HTML-Parser
> Port:	p5-HTML-Parser-3.56
> Path:	/usr/ports/www/p5-HTML-Parser
> Info:	Perl5 module for parsing HTML documents
> Maint:	perl at FreeBSD.org
> B-deps:	p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-Test-Harness-2.64
> p5-Test-Simple-0.70 p5-URI-1.35 perl-5.8.8
> R-deps:	p5-HTML-Tagset-3.10 p5-URI-1.35 perl-5.8.8
> WWW:	http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Parser/
> 
> LWP::Simple happens to be one of the exceptions to the normal naming 
> convention.
> 
> Its location is www/p5-libwww.
> 
> It doesn't look like there's an Encode::Unicode port.  There's a
> bunch of Tk perl ports.

IIRC, CPAN also allows installing perl modules.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

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