On Fri, May 24, 2013, at 5:53, Johan Vromans wrote:
> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> It would not be easy to do on web hosting which does not has
> >> possibility of installing modules from CPAN. Also currently CGI.pm
> >> requires FCGI which requires compiler which frequently is not
> >> installed.
> >
> > Maybe the consequence of this would be that hosting services start
> > adopting a more progressive approach to this subject.
>
> That would have been so several years ago. I don't think it works like
> that nowadays.
>
> Hosting provider: Here's your system. Good luck.
> Client: Hey, I need perl!
> Hosting provider: Perl's on the system.
> Client: But I need to install modules to get my web application going.
> Hosting provider: Can't do. Please use php / ruby / ... instead.
I have to admit that I work for a hosting provider (a large one,
however,) and I know they're not like that. I remember talking to one of
our tech support agents who helped a customer install Catalyst, for
example.
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> demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> It would not be easy to do on web hosting which does not has
> >> possibility of installing modules from CPAN. Also currently CGI.pm
> >> requires FCGI which requires compiler which frequently is not
> >> installed.
> >
> > Maybe the consequence of this would be that hosting services start
> > adopting a more progressive approach to this subject.
>
> That would have been so several years ago. I don't think it works like
> that nowadays.
>
> Hosting provider: Here's your system. Good luck.
> Client: Hey, I need perl!
> Hosting provider: Perl's on the system.
> Client: But I need to install modules to get my web application going.
> Hosting provider: Can't do. Please use php / ruby / ... instead.
I have to admit that I work for a hosting provider (a large one,
however,) and I know they're not like that. I remember talking to one of
our tech support agents who helped a customer install Catalyst, for
example.
--Curtis
--
Curtis Jewell
csjewell@cpan.org http://csjewell.dreamwidth.org/
perl@csjewell.fastmail.us http://csjewell.comyr.org/perl/
"Your random numbers are not that random" -- perl-5.10.1.tar.gz/util.c
Strawberry Perl for Windows betas: http://strawberryperl.com/beta/