Another "naive" question, but questioning minds must ask. It took a few days and the PHP community is already out with a very decent iCal parser. Reads ics files and makes calendars.
Perhaps the Net::ICal and related modules set out to do too much, and never got beyond the third alpha release. This is what bothers me... I want to do something quickly and I think of Perl... but I find it is sometimes just easier to do with PHP, and as much as I hate doing it, I concede another small "victory" to PHP. Did the Net::ICal authors just set out to do too much? I believe that Perl lets us be as complicated or simple as we want to be. So, why not keep it simple so it works. Right now, looking from other's experience, I can't even make Net::ICal work on my machine. Why, oh why? No flames please... if you feel like flaming, go take a smoke. I believe Perl tools can be simple to use... I just want to know why they are not. Last time I upgraded my stock Apple Perl I got creamed six ways from sunday. This time, after upgrading to Jaguar, I am not touching that darn thing. Dan Sugalski gave a good explanation saying that Perl is complex because it does so much, and I respect that. But seems like this symptom pervades most everything. pk/
