Greetings Anonymous Friend! This Applescript wrapper for your CPAN client was developed to enhance accessibility on Apple Mac so Perl modules can be installed without typing (see System Preferences -> Accessibility). Physical situations and disabilities exist that prevent typing, or make it difficult, and this software solves that problem. I have thousands of CPAN modules installed and can assure you this is an efficient TIMTOWTDI to typing. Can you elaborate on the potential dangers of essentially copying and pasting text to a CPAN client? I'm eager to fix any problems.

This code provides several innovations that do not
otherwise exist in the known universe AFAIK:

1. Extends your CPAN client to respond to mouse actions only, no keyboard is required to install modules.



2. Extends the CPAN site to have something like a "click to install" button except this requires: click; select; click; click: Perl module installed! One can also assign a keyboard shortcut (System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services) to eliminate the last 2 clicks: click; select; key: Installed!



3. Extends your browser as if some sort of CPAN plugin was installed since modules can be selected from any site.



4. Extends the entire OS by providing glue between selected text and CPAN and Perl.

All that with one word of Perl wrapped in 17 lines of Applescript! To see the Perl that cpan and cpanm mean type less $(which cpanm) in shell. Thank you for participating in the development of free accessibility software for Apple Mac OSX and macOS written for Perl and CPAN!

This code can also be implemented as a voice command to make your own Perl-centric voice assistant: "Hey CPAN, install Some::Module", "Dave, The module has been installed.", "Ok CPAN, install Other::Module", "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Other::Module is already installed. Would you like to upgrade or reinstall the module, Dave?"

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