On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 23:06 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote: > > He's embarrassed that didn't think to run "apt-get install > > libnet-twitter-perl"? > > That doesn't work so well on a vanilla OS X box. Whcih is what his > workstation is.
That's not a perl fail but rather a fail on the part of those who package (or don't package) perl modules for that platform. In fairness it's also a fail on the various Linux platforms I've encountered too as nobody has, so far, produced a comprehensive cpan to $whatever_distro repository > There is a toolchain bug. Perl's toolchain can't find XCode. Is it really the responsibility of the perl toolchain to do that? Surely it's a platform responsibility to provide a reliable dependency chain whether the platform is an OS distro or something else.