Are you on Linux or using Strawberry Perl?
I used Activestate for 15+ years and I was surprised
by how easy it was to move to Strawberry Perl about
3 years ago. It's pretty darn easy to install modules
with Strawberry Perl and seems to work every time.
Mike
Uri, thanks for the boatload of useful suggestions! I will am busying
myself with understanding and applying them.
Regarding Template::Simple, this module isn’t among the many that my
host has installed, and I have not had success trying to learn how to
install stuff from CPAN. Fortunately I’m beginning to get the hang of
Template Toolkit, and I may need it for more complex situations that
come up. Switching from HTML::template this year was a challenge, and
I had to rewrite a lot of my perl to go with it. I know that most perl
people are good at using the CPAN resource, but I’m just a high school
teacher who dabbles in perl. And at age 74 I have to be choosy about
which learning curves I take on!
Still, if anyone can point me to a “beginners guide” to using CPAN,
I’ll take a look at it.
Rick Triplett
