2022-07-05

Since I'm old, but not that old, my preferred scripting
language is perl. I learned it 20 years ago and to be
honest it basically does everything I need it to do in
terms of simple scripting.

I wanted to bring a quick script I wrote on my laptop
onto SDF but I honestly had a devil of a time getting
all the package modules installed on SDF.

Is perl just not that popular on SDF or am I just too
dumb to figure out where all the perl packages are 
installed? Either way I had to muddle my way through
a local CPAN installation. It was kind of a PITA.

But I eventually got most of what I needed installed.
These weren't even crazy obscure perl packages either.

Some of the modules I had to locally install:
LWP
URI
Test::Needs (CPAN wouldn't even build most of the stuff!)
Net::HTTP
Mozilla::CA
IO::Socket::SSL

Those are just the basic packages I needed to just fetch
a webpage onto SDF using perl. 

I did a cursory check of the @INC paths and it seems like
those modules aren't installed on SDF or at least not
made available to arpa users. But then again i don't
really know a goddamn thing about netbsd and default
perl libraries.

Either way, it's all installed to my local lib so I guess
alls well that ends well.