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Re:Helping people find good Perl tutorials by Mithaldu on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:18PM (#3193267)
That's a strong claim. Exactly what qualified it as "dependency hell" for you. What problems did you run into?
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Re:Helping people find good Perl tutorials by TylerE on Monday November 07, 2011 @12:28PM (#3207215)
Like depending on 20 other modules, 4 of which fail to build with the current version. Lots of bitrot.
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Re:Helping people find good Perl tutorials by Mithaldu on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:05PM (#3207398)
If i am understanding you right, you are talking about modules being abandoned and not working with a newer perl version you installed?

In that case that is most certainly not dependency hell, since no amount of dependency gyrations could fix it. The module is flat out broken on that version. Perl does however give you all the information you need to figure out on which versions of Perl the given modules work via:

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=IO-Socket-SSL-1.49

or

http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/I/IO-Socket-SSL.html#IO-So...

Armed with that knowledge you can then use Perlbrew to install that version and be on your way.

If i misunderstood, please feel free to correct me.

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