-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello,
thanks to further input from the original reporter I (as co-maintainer of N:O:H) have been able to sort out the issues illustrated by the report: - - one of the repositories used in the test suite changed its address recently thus causing some tests to fail: fixed - - The LibXML family of parsers behaves very noisily when it comes to the test for illegal XML making it hard to notice that the test actually succeeds (not fixed) Two issues with XML::SAX might be of broader interest: [not applicable to this thread: - - "ParserDetails.ini" XML::SAX (::ParserFactory) uses a text file ParserDetails.ini located in the folder SAX.pm resides in or (Debian only?) under /etc/perl/... This file contains the list of known parsers in this installation and their properties. For myself I have noticed several times that this file was not generated (because of non-interactive dependency installs?) and subsequently installed individual parsers were not registered. My impression is that the XML::SAX framework should fall back to XML::SAX::PurePerl installed by the package itself but this does not seem to happen in the Net::OAI::Harvester test suite (maybe because the parser is requested with a "required feature"). Status: not tackled yet cf. < http://perl-xml.sourceforge.net/faq/#parserdetails.ini > ] - - "latest version of XML::SAX::Base" some sub-modules of Net::OAI::Harvester use the get_handler() method supplied by XML::SAX::Base as of version 1.04. This module is literally hidden in the XML::SAX distribution (source is generated by Makefile.PL to prevent indexing of the module on CPAN). There is a strain of "standalone" versions of XML::SAX::Base on CPAN ending at version 1.02 which does not contain the method in question. (The README of this standalone module gives the warning that you probably do not want to install this module but the complete XML::SAX framework). When you explicitly request installation of XML::SAX::Base there is a probability that this fetches version 1.02 and takes precedence over or actually overwrites version 1.04 installed by XML::SAX and there is absolutely no upgrade path: XML::SAX::Base 1.02 must be uninstalled/removed then for things to work again. For Net::OAI::Harvester I have refined the requirement of XML::SAX::Base to the specific version 1.04 and I'm awaiting the CPAN Tester reports to come in: It might well be that more systems than before are entrapped to install the wrong module when performing "Build installdeps" and thus effectively cut themselves off from executing the tests at all. Thomas Berger Am 18.05.2011 09:14, schrieb Saiful Amin: >> >> I am attempting to use some code which depends on Net::OAI::Harvester, >> but my attempts to install OAI::Harvester are running into problems >> with: >> >> Any suggestions for getting this installed properly? I'm assuming that >> this is a case where a simple "force install" isn't going to get me a >> working installation... >> > > I've used Net::OAI::Harvester on both Ubuntu and Windows XP for my projects. > On XP I've used Strawberry Perl, in which installing using CPAN luckily > worked without any problem. In Ubuntu, I had to install from synaptic when > CPAN failed. If I remember correctly, the command was: > # sudo apt-get install libnet-oai-harvester-perl > > It works better than cpan in managing dependencies in my experience. > > Regards, > Saiful Amin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iJwEAQECAAYFAk3ThigACgkQYhMlmJ6W47PypwP9HwJSNbwmtOh+3G+Y4wKFJODS r1UiDOGc/TDi5zcgRtEHq8lDTlH/CecHYnJv5IN5rJiW2icykoI1Th5lEKX5K90N s+I8xSpEZXfL5k51hTu7Nql5F8iyF/L7lSyMic3s91/kdAraoDgagcf6pEYg4dRt Lv2MSAS1EPuU6jdU4JQ= =QUFO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
