It seems like every time a major distro jumps to a new version of Perl, there is copious gnashing of teeth and spawning of new threads here. At the risk of putting my ignorance on parade, I'll ask: why not distribute a runtime of perl with the linux LMS?
It would only solve part of the problem. There's not "the" Linux. There are different distributions on different platforms, too. Plus Linux users usually have the tools and are used to compiling stuff. In particular users running bleeding edge distributions should be willing to do so.
That said we could probably simplify or streamline the compilation of the modules required. Put the check for requirements at the very beginning in stead of letting the compilation fail after 30 minutes with little indication about the missing pieces but a huge log file :-).
It's already done with the Windows version. Every version of squeezeplay includes a runtime of lua, doesn't it? I notice that ActiveState has perl packages for Linux. And the current nightly LMS deb install package, now that it includes all architectures, is more than twice the size of the Windows install package anyway.
And, as I mentioned recently in a thread trying to find a solution for this, about 6x the size required. The ReadyNAS packages (linux, too, but only for one of their architectures) come in at about 22MB.
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