Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Kind and Wise Monks:

My inexperience has painted me into a corner. I am using ActivePerl 5.8.8 on WindowsXP. On my development machine and a couple of production machines I have a package Text-CSV_PP ver 1.05 installed.

Today I had to install and test some code on a new machine, the above package was not installed there, so I used the Package Manager to install Text-CSV 1.10, both packages were written by Makamaka, I was of the impression that 1.10 was the replacement for the 1.05.

My sad story is that my code will not run on this new machine, it is failing to parse the CSV file. It works fine where 1.05 is installed.

Where can I find Text-CSV_PP ver 1.05 to install via the ActivePerl Pachage manager?

I found on my machine Text-CSV_PP-1.05.tar.gz. I unpacked it on the target machine and ran perl Makefile.pl. It reported that the "Kit Looked Good". Now what?

Thanks for considering my issue.

Best Regards

KD

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Re: Text-CSV_PP versions
by kennethk (Abbot) on Dec 10, 2008 at 18:58 UTC
    If you've already downloaded the file, you can use the command line ppm install *filename* (check ppm help for details). You'll probably need to uninstall Text-CSV_PP ver 1.10 before you do this. And if a module upgrade breaks something, you should probably submit a bug report via cpan.
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      Thanks for your swift reply.

      Your suggestion did not work.

      With further reading and searching i found: A Guide to Installing Modules http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=128077

      It worked. I did, of course, install the 1.10 module first.

      Thanks Again

      KD
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