Let us say that I am writing a script that requires the SSL module as part of LWP::Protocol::https (which I am) and it is supposed to run on a remote host (which it is) run by a company that has shown reluctance to install individual modules at the request of their clients (which they have). Let us also say that I am not the smartest monkey in the universe (which I'm definitely not).

Can anyone explain a safe and reliable way of making the functionality of the SSL.pm available to my script directly, considering that this module would be called from a properly installed module? I understand that, theoretically, I am able to roll the code of virtually any .pm into my own scripts and have them work, but I suspect (maybe wrongly) that in order to get SSL functionality, I would probably also have to include all of its parent packages (which would be pretty dumb, I think).

Am I stuck here or is there a monkishly clever way out of this tight little box?

Yukio

In reply to Pseudo-installing modules by Yukio

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