it’s the tools

I was checking out the source code for wscat and noticed it looked like a trivial port to Perl. Then I searched ddg for "wscat perl" and the first result took me to Net::WebSocket where the changes mention a "wscat.pl demo script" (which it doesn't install, wtf). After installing Net::WebSocket the script wscat.pl failed to run because IO::Events was not installed. After installing IO::Events it still failed because MockReader was not installed. Trying to install MockReader seemed to simply reinstall Net::WebSocket and didn't fix the problem. Then I noticed @INC was modified by wscat.pl so I had to mkdir 'lib' and put MockReader.pm in a /lib relative to the location of wscat.pl. After the hassle, which only took a minute or two, the wscat.pl demo script appears to function and the example given for the javascript version worked perfectly! I guess it would be a good idea for someone to clean up the installation mess and release something useful like App::wscat so you can use Perl! 

> wscat.pl ws://echo.websocket.org
> hi there
> hi there
> are you a happy parrot?
> are you a happy parrot?

https://github.com/websockets/wscat
https://metacpan.org/source/FELIPE/Net-WebSocket-0.21/demo/wscat.pl

In reply to Re^2: a lot of the CPAN big hitters have gone by Anonymous Monk
in thread a lot of the CPAN big hitters have gone by tobyink

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