Re: [sprog-users] Parse HTML Table Error - Debian

[William O'H. <wil...@ut...>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:20:27AM +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
>
>On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:43 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote:=20
>> I've been meaning to poke around on sprog since I read the article on
>> O'Reilly, and the first thing I tried threw an error.
>
>To put it slightly differently, you had no problem installing Sprog or
>getting it to run and display the main application Window.  But when you
>tried to add a specific gear to the workspace you got an error message.=20

Just like you said :-)

>I (perhaps optimistically) envisage that there will eventually be Sprog
>components for half the modules on CPAN.  But, having to install half of
>CPAN just to get Sprog running would present quite a barrier to entry.

Good point, but perhaps the cogs supplied by default should be
supported.

>So instead, my plan is to allow gear classes to declare dependencies.
>Then in the circumstance you described, Sprog would recognise which CPAN
>module was missing and would determine the corresponding package for
>your OS distribution through some mapping process.  Instead of the
>current Perl compilation error, Sprog would pop up an alert dialog
>advising you that you needed to install the libxml-libxml-perl package.

I'll take a look at the error codes and see if I can contribute a
user-friendly "You appear to be missing $module_x" routine.  Once
there's a way to tell the user which module they need, than we can see
about system-specific mappings to resolve those dependencies.

One thing I am finding is that they cogs are not snapping together
easily for me.  Sometimes I just can't get them to pop together, and as
earlier mentioned on the list, if I take a machine apart it does not go
back together very easily (well, at all actually).  I'll keep fiddling=20
with it and report anything repeatable.

I definitely think that sprog is extremely neat, and hopefully I'll be
able to meaningfully contribute.
--=20

yours,

William