Why does it seem with Perl that the likelihood of entering dependency
hell is inversely proportional to the length of the script you want to
write?
I have a 10 liner which requires one simple module. Which requires 3 or
4 modules from cpan. Which themselves require another dozen modules
Google for MCPAN and see if that fixes things, or breaks them even
further. Most of the time it will install dependencies without much of
a problem.
YMMV, I only abuse Perl when I can.
Dave
On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 01:03 -0500, Richard Thomas wrote:
Why does it seem with Perl that the
Funnily enough, it was a date module: DateTime::Format::Mail . I just
wanted to be able to parse the Date: header in emails for sorting into
different folders. After much messing about, I gave up when it wanted
libgmp.so.10 . I do have libgmp but it's the wrong version apparently.
So I just
Gee, and I thought it was only bad karma on my part that kept module after
module from compiling correctly. I'm a Perl fan, no question - yet every
time I have to install a module to get something done, I'm crossing my
fingers and holding my breath.
Curt
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Richard
