Re: [mh] Error using SMS::Send

[David N. <dno...@ya...>]

Andy wrote:
> In answer to your question about CPAN. Yes, it does have a very simple
> update mechanism:
>
> perl -MCPAN -e "upgrade"

This command didn't do anything on my system.  It's possible all my CPAN 
modules are up to date, I guess.

> As for install time ease, I understand your concerns - no one wants to
> make life hard for inexperienced users. Below is an extract from my
> history log during the install of MisterHouse. I had to install these
> modules to get the current MH going. The HTTP/HTML modules are part of
> the base install already. The commands below show the ease of
> installation anyway.
>
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::Telnet"
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Tk::JPEG"
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Tk::CursorControl"
> perl -MCPAN -e "install DB_File"
> perl -MCPAN -e "install Term::ReadKey"

We could include a script to do this.  Does this work on Windows and Macs 
too?

> Of course, I did break MH by removing the modules from mh/lib/site.
>
> QUESTION: How do we find out what was depending on the outdated
> library?? AND why was the module put in mh/lib/site?

I removed the HTML and HTTP directories on my system as well.  All I had to 
do to get misterhouse running again was run:

 perl -MCPAN -e "install HTML::FormatText"

> I found that "sub oscar::cb_imin" from "mh/lib/handy_net_utilities.pl"
> had a single line of code depending on the old module. What docs do we
> have to confirm that it is the only code relying on the outdated module?

None :)

> I would really like to add SMS::Send (for it's world-wide support of
> carriers and that other developers are keeping the functionality up to
> date via CPAN) to MH. I suggest that keeping HTML and HTTP up to date
> with CPAN would probably be a good idea, but that breaks the Oscar
> protocol code.

There is an argument to "use" to specify a particular module version, but I 
haven't played with it.

> Question: Does Oscar support actually work??

I have no idea.

David