On Jun 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Steven Rogers wrote:

Yeah - I know that, but SQL Fairy is written in Perl, and I don't really understand what's needed to make it build. I finally got it to work using CPAN, which was a nightmare involving typing in commands that look more like assembly language than command line syntax.  Thank goodness for MacPorts.


it shouldn't be that hard, if all you need is a load of perl dependencies to be met. Is CPAN really that hairy? It's no more cryptic than perl itself ;-) 
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