Re:Helping people find good Perl tutorials
by Mithaldu on Monday November 07, 2011 @01:05PM
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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:
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.