Some people are probably tired of hearing "I need to drill a hole but I can't be bothered to install a (free) high-quality commercial drill but rather must install something I build myself which won't be as good at drilling."

I do understand several of the problems with installing modules that lead to the very often repeated requests for how to do things that great modules exist for but without using these great modules. But it doesn't mean that the requests don't get tiring.

The source code for the modules is freely available so if there is some magic about installing the code that you write, then you can use the module source code in order to rewrite the module yourself. But most of us suggest that you figure out how to install some good quality modules along with whatever code you end up writing and installing.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

In reply to (tye)Re: Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like by tye
in thread Grabbing a web page without LWP or the like by Hot Pastrami

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