Hello Monks,
I'm looking for some advice. I have written a web app and slightly niavely used a non-standard Perl module namely XML::Simple. Now every time I sell this software to a company I have to get them to install this module and not all hosting companies are happy doing this. Therefore I am making life difficult for myself. I wish I hadn't used the module now, I was really just trying to be clever. I could have written the code another way, but chose XML simple because I thought it would be cool.

So I think the moral of this story is DON'T USE NON-STANDARD PERL MODULES!

I'm trying to think of ways around this predicament without re-writting my code, I thought about using the

use lib '/export/home/whatever/lib/';

Setting a local lib directory and installing the module locally. This works, until I try and run it, in which case it starts to ask for more and more modules, such as URI::URL.pm. Then it just complains because the versions are all wrong.

So can anyone give me any advice about this, what should I do? Maybe it would be simplier to use another module rather than XML::Simple, does anyone know of very similar but standard XML modules that I could use instead of this?

Your help is as always really appreciated.

Regards,
Tom

In reply to Loading Local Modules by CodeJunkie

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