Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] The Target Audience

[iain t. <ic...@eh...>]

* Dave Cross (da...@da...) [20 Jan 2002 03:01]:

[...]
> I honestly can't tell you what problems I had other than to say I
> couldn't get ms-mail to work. I followed the instructions as I
> understood them, meaning, from a layman's point of view.

I suspect he had trouble with the Mail::Mailer part. Not a problem for
the nms stuff. Either that, or he installed it under Windows (where
taint mode can prove amusing).

Out of interest, is there a simple way to download modules that a
Makefile.PL says one should have? e.g.

  perl Makefile.PL
  make modules
  make
  make test
  make install

Or could just be subsumed into the 'make' part.



I must admit I still have a vague philosophical objection to the
project in that "why are laymen installing CGIs?" and "why don't they
just learn what the errors actually mean?". He'd have been up the creek
if none of the scripts he downloaded had worked.

Then again, I still worry about articles and so on that mention the 'CGI
programming language'.


cheers,
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iain.                                          <http://eh.org/~koschei/>