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[Rob Styles]

OK, I'm running perl from macports not the standard install, so it is
probably missing modules.

If that is the case it would be great to have a runtime dependancy
check and warning.

rob

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 10:49 PM, dinkypumpkin <dinkypumpkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/05/2011 21:19, Andy Bircumshaw wrote:
>>
>> Also get_iplayer has (since Phil gave up the project) dependencies on a
>> number of non-core Perl modules.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I state this as an FYI in case you're not already aware of this; perhaps
>> you already were.
>>
>
> 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.
>
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