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[dinkypumpkin]

On 03/05/2011 21:19, Andy Bircumshaw wrote:
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> Also get_iplayer has (since Phil gave up the project) dependencies on a number of non-core Perl modules.
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> If you were to install from an RPM then these should be pulled in automatically, or they may already be installed on a RedHat system, but they're probably not installed on OS X by default.
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> I state this as an FYI in case you're not already aware of this; perhaps you already were.
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It should still be OK on OSX.  Apple shovels in a bunch of extra modules 
with their Perl installation.  All the dependencies from get_iplayer 
2.79 are installed in both system Perl installations (5.8.9 and 5.10.0) 
on Snow Leopard.

I think this is a problem with the old version of get_iplayer, and 
perhaps some incompatibility with the current metadata formats coming 
down from the BBC.  The programmes causing trouble for Rob work just 
fine on my OSX 10.6.7 system, with get_iplayer 2.79 and both versions of 
Perl.  However, if I use get_iplayer 2.78 I get the same result as Rob, 
again with both versions of Perl.  I didn't look any further than that, 
but I would seem to suggest that acquiring 2.79 would be a useful thing 
to do.