> I posted a couple of things there yesterday.
Are you 'wunder', then? > I was trying to do an > install on perl 5.6, but I ran into a whole bunch of dependancy > issues with some of the modules that CAF requires, so I eventually > gave up on that particular machine. Is there an established minimum > version of perl required to get everything installed? If you open up the Build.PL at the top level of the CAF tarball then you'll see most of the modules in the 'requires' block have '0' as the required version number, meaning "I don't care what version you have as long as you have it." Clearly, this is wrong. Any given one of these modules has probably gone through dozens of version releases, and no doubt the 0.01 versions of the modules aren't sufficient for CAF purposes, or any purpose probably. But what can Michael and I do? It's not like we have an array of testing machines in our respective basements and build scripts and environments set up to test every conceivable permutation of CPAN module release *and* an infinitely-good test harness suite so that we can say "here is the minimum base case required for CAF". (Michael actually gave a talk about this at TPF during the lightning talks in September.) The same goes for Perl. I'm a Perl guy so I keep my Perl up to date, e.g. =================================================================== =================================================================== =================================================================== =================================================================== debian:~# perl -v This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi Copyright 1987-2005, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'. If you have access to the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page. debian:~# dpkg --list perl Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii perl 5.8.7-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report =================================================================== =================================================================== =================================================================== =================================================================== This is pretty damn new. What is the min version of Perl required? I have no idea. This is what I have on my machine, I only own one computer, and I keep it up to date. I imagine Michael is in a similar situation. We rely on users to provide us with error reports. If something didn't work for you, let us know and we'll include it in the 'require' block in Build.PL. Getting back to your dependancy issues, what kind of dependancy issues were these? The presence (or lack) of C libraries? (That's a special kind of dependacy issue.) Post your error log from your CPAN module install here and we can provide insight into how to overcome it, hopefully. Cheers, Richard ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ caf mailing list caf@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caf
