p5 modules, get me started on one

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 03:19:44PM -0800, Scott Haneda said:
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:32 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:09:02PM -0800, Scott Haneda said:
>>> If I have a requirement in software for Net::LDAP version 0.33, and I
>>> tried to make a port look for net-ldap 0.39 as at this url
>>> http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/perl-ldap-0.39/
>>>
>>> I see the download is for perl-ldap-0.39.tar.gz, which is not Net-
>>> LDAP-0.39.tar.gz.  Does this just mean I need to get the entire suite 
>>> of
>>> ldap mods, and with it will come net::LDAP ?
>>
>> That would be the best way to go about it, creating a port for p5- 
>> perl-ldap;
>> however, that already exists:
>>
>> p5-perl-ldap @0.36 (perl)
>>    A client interface to LDAP servers
>
>
> Ok, installed p5-perl-ldap and I get this
> sudo port list installed | grep ldap
> p5-file-readbackwards          @1.04           perl/p5-net-ldap
> p5-perl-ldap                   @0.36           perl/p5-perl-ldap
>
> * Again, wondering why readbackwards is still in that list.

Note that there isn't a p5-net-ldap in the main port list, so maybe that's
something else you added initially, prior to putting it into a
p5-file-readbackwards directory?

>
> Anyway, the package I am trying to use needs specifically net::ldap .33, 
> how do I test that it is there, as currently, it does not seem to be.

Are you saying you specifically need 0.33 and 0.36 can't work?

Bryan


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> Scott