[rt-users] RT and the Perl Dependency Nightmare...

[Timothy E Miller]

Greetings all,

Is there any official list that indicates the correct order for
building and installing the multitude of Perl modules from CPAN?
I'm running into some strange circular dependencies.

Also, e.g. since there's this problem with pod2test disappearing and
making the WWW::Mechanize (or was it Test::WWW::Mechanize?!?) module
die upon building, do the RT folks have a repository of all the Perl
module sources required for a successful end product that are
publicly available to pair up with the RT release (specifically
3.4.4) that we can simply grab and rebuild?

And while I've got your attention, how does everyone else handle the
fact that there are ~100 perl modules from CPAN required for RT that
are randomly (almost chaotically) changing individually and in
almost certainly incompatible ways?

I'm just trying to get a handle on it, that's all.

Thanks!
-Tim

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Timothy E. Miller, PhD, RHCE                   voice:   (336)758-3257
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