| tindie | is what I have on os X (now you know why I have so many questions :) |
| sbingner | cpan is for automated installations.... if you cant do the automated install just extract it and run "perl Makefile.PL" |
| tindie | Looks like your test died before it could output anything. it says to me perhaps on os x directories are not where they traditionally are on unix |
| Randal | they're mostly in the right place OSX userland is mostly freebsd |
| sbingner | what test died? |
| Randal | the rabbit done died. :) |
| tindie | Could not open 'Simple.pm': No such file or directory at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm line 3079, <DATA> line 1. |
| Randal | eh what? I don't know any simple module what are you trying to install? |
| tindie | Mac-OSA-Simple-1.09 |
| sbingner | "install Mac::OSA::Simple" |
| tindie | that seems to be working inside cpan oh well, it was a nice attempt tahnks gonna go walk the dog and think of what to try next |
| sbingner | tindie, you should be able to configure it to use your proxy server if necessary even... they block FTP from inside your firewall? |
| Randal | use Dog::Poo |
| tindie | i'd like to use perl to script stuff in os x, via it's applescript/OSA hooks to a lot of applications yes, ftp is blocked |
| Randal | even passive FTP? |
| tindie | i can ssh out of work, but ftp never works |
| sbingner | push @{$lawn{litter}}, new Dog::Poo; |
| Randal | how about HTTP? |
| tindie | yes, http works |
| Randal | if you can ssh out, you can set up an ssh-socks Oh - then pick an http CPAN mirror |
| tindie | please tell me more about doing that, randal |
| Randal | "that"? |
| tindie | like, how to do it |
| Randal | I said five things. :) which one |
| sbingner | Randal, how do you make it re-ask the initial install question about cpan mirrors - I suspect he means that |
| Randal | maybe let's see. :) |