Most likely due to network restrictions, or certain helper software not available. CPAN has sometimes a hard time getting out of a firewall (which is sometimes caused by the person configuring CPAN not knowing what to answer to all the questions). Also, to get out, CPAN is geared towards LWP - which - *grumble* *grumble* isn't part of the core. And where getting out with LWP might be possible, it won't be possible with ftp, or whatever CPAN tries if LWP isn't there.
But as you said, downloading it yourself and running perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install is fairly simple. I don't know about other GUIs, but Tk doesn't have dependencies. It takes a few minutes due to all the compiling, but installing Tk is simple. In fact, it's easier to install by hand than from CPAN - if you install from CPAN, you compile/test running as the same user you're going to install the modules with. And that's not necessary the same user as you're normally running under. Which, at least in my setup, means that the user making/testing Tk doesn't have permission to display widgets on the screen. Resulting in a test failure, and an aborted install. | [reply] |
You should try installing Maypole on a virgin system with that approach. :-/ | [reply] |
I assume you mean that Maypole has a lot of dependancies and would therefore require a lot of work to install manually. But if CPAN doesn;t work for the simple case, it certainly won't work for the complex ones.
The manual method may be tedious, but provided wget works, then the manual process will work.
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Yes, of course.
The problem installing Maypole is not just the number of dependencies, but their depth. Without something that helps you keep track of the recursive dependencies, it's easy to lose your mental stack pointer and give up somewhere in the n-teenth module.
Even with CPAN, sometimes things break. My only half-joking workaround:
system("cpan Maypole") while ! eval { require Maypole };
(But to be fair, it's been a few months since I last touched Maypole. Things may have drastically improved!)
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