On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Richard Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 which then > fail to compile and on the way to sorting those out, it seems I'm missing a > linked library or three that's needed. > > Quicker just to hack things with a regex. And people wonder why "not > invented here" is a phenomenon. > > Rich
I have run into this sort of thing before, sorry, it is not fun. (Of course if the modules happen to be available through your Linux distro, it generally helps.) Work paid for ActiveState's Komodo IDE, which really likes to use ActiveState's Perl (of course). They only have popular modules available for download, but if the desired module(s) are among those it is great (it uses a package manager). If not... it's usually not much worse than other versions. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
