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Re^2: The sad state of SOAP and Perlby Anonymous Monk |
on Apr 13, 2006 at 03:19 UTC ( [id://542984]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Have you had a look at the Writing, Installing, and Using Perl Modules section of the Tutorials of this site?Although SOAP is not something I have used before, I am quite familiar with Writing, Installing and Using Perl Modules. I am familiar enough that I know the magick incantation... ...doesn't work every single time. I know it is not always easy to get modules to compile correctly on all platforms, but I'm not exactly trying to get this stuff to run on a PocketPC or an X-Box. We're talking standard hardware + Fedora/Windows. I know from reading p5p and mailing lists the kinds of hoops folks have to jump through to get Makemaker to do everything, and about Build.pm, CPANPLUS, etc. <soap-box> I have developed relatively large-scale projects spread across multiple servers, networks and operating systems and have always had this kind of trouble (not only with Perl).</soap-box> On the other hand you have Inline::* - installs quickly, runs right out of the box (even on Windows) and does what its label says it does. I know that the magick of being able to have 99% of everything work great is really nice, but I'm wondering what can be done to smooth out this last 1% of modules that have been difficult (or in the case of SpiderMonkey, nigh impossible) to install since Day One.
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