Hardest to install CPAN Module? was Re: easy introduction to perl

[Jesse Vincent]

On Oct 6, 2007, at 5:29 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:33:40PM +0100, Peter Corlett typed:
>
>> On 6 Oct 2007, at 20:15, Matt S Trout wrote:
>> [...]
>>> In fact, the same goes for Catalyst - if you're careful you can  
>>> get it
>>> installed without needing to compile -anything- (and there's ways
>>> and means
>>> of installing your own copies of XS modules onto servers anyway,
>>> just needs
>>> a little bit of smarts applied).
>>
>> Umm, Catalyst is the archetype of hard-to-install CPAN modules.
>
> Well I've not installed RT recently but the last time I did  
> (admittedly
> years ago) it needed a specific subversion of DBD::mysql.


That was true for a couple weeks a couple years ago when something  
broke.


> RT would be my candidate for hardest-to-install CPAN module.

Also, RT isn't a CPAN module.


Best,
Jesse
> -- 
> Steve Mynott <steve at tightrope.demon.co.uk>
>