Re: What perl modules work?

In the last mail Richard Proctor said:

> However seeing the question about Fly, I think we should generalise it - what
> is the known state of working / not working for everything in the Library
> supplied with the port?  And likewise the main modules from CPAN?

To the best of my knowledge all modules supplied in the port pass all
regression tests that are run on them.

Don't read that as "they work".

Read it as "those that have regression tests pass those tests that are known
not to fail using unix like file names".

> I must admit to not trying very much, but considering all known modules,
> standard ones with the with the distribution, risc-os specific modules,
> anythong on CPAN.  If people have got them to work/not work let me know and I
> will maintain a list (on one of my web sites), also if anyone has any tips as
> to how get them working I will include that.

I think there's intended to be a centralised list of what works on what OS,
so it would seem better to add our findings into that. perlport for 5.003
mentions 

http://www.connect.net/gbarr/cpan-test/

maintained by Graham Barr, but that page appears to be dead. Hopefully he is
still maintaining it somewhere [as I know that his parents have an Archimedes
:-) ]

and a mailing list [email protected]

I think a good start would be me spending less time at my work, and getting the
5.005_03 source tidy.

I've got MakeMaker into a reasonably stable state - it actually copes with all
the core perl extensions out of the box, IIRC [by using pmake - make written
in perl, and a unix "shell emulator" I wrote (that emulates per process
current directories and && and || operators)]

Part of the problem with "perl" modules not working then becomes their
dependency on external libraries "normally" available on Unix, but not ported
to RISC OS.

Nick