Hi Edward,
On 2013-03-11 19:11, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote:
I started following his rosy path, until the point "Now, you will
have the joy of going through CPAN. In one of my early tries at this,
WWW::Mechanize failed and gave a message that it refused to install
without using "force."
The whole installation process is bogus. I'm having a really hard
time believing this is the correct state of the world.
It sounds like you've had years of teeth-grinding at the CPAN shell and
I don't blame you. However you'll be relieved to know the state of the
world has changed.
In Perl, the holy foursome of perlbrew, App::cpanminus, and
(optionally) local::lib and App::local::lib::helper, will allow you to
install and maintain independent, local Perl "environments".
Create one or more self-contained Perl installations which live in
$HOME or elsewhere:
https://metacpan.org/module/perlbrew
Install Perl modules *much* more easily and reliably:
https://metacpan.org/module/App::cpanminus
The other two dists cater for other circumstances which I won't go into
here.
https://metacpan.org/module/local::lib
https://metacpan.org/module/App::local::lib::helper
In Python-land the very same thing exists and it's called "virtualenv":
http://www.virtualenv.org/
In Ruby I believe there are also a few, although I'm not familiar with
any:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/486995/ruby-equivalent-of-virtualenv
p.s. +1 for Request Tracker 4 installed using Debian packages - you
won't go wrong with this option.
HTH,
regards,
oliver.
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