Re: Trouble on Perl 5.18.4 on Fedora, running Plack

Hi Chris, everybody,

While of course this is ultimately a problem of Fedora and not ours, I'm a bit concerned on how this reflects on us. While I have seen your mail regarding Perlbrew and it's thus possible to make things work, I'm concerned that the first impression from users trying LedgerSMB will be that "it" doesn't work.

Does this report concern both 1.4 and master? What can we do in our communication to explain the situation? I'm also thinking we may want to help people in a way that it's easy to get a working setup. If the easy path of getting a working setup on Debian is to use Starman, but on Fedora it is to use Apache, how can we help people walk down the right path?

Regards,

Erik.

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:

Hi;

I am at this point giving up running LedgerSMB via Plack on Fedora. Last night I set up LedgerSMB on a Debian virtualbox image I have. I am not sure what the problem is but I see a lot of issues and they go deep.

I have frankly not been very impressed with Fedora's Perl support. I have tried to work around them for a while but this frustration has been growing for a while (Fedora makes it remarkably difficult to install modules from CPAN and have them work for example).

The issues I am seeing appear to relate to Starman not handling sockets correctly, and processes therefore tripping over eachother. This causes deep recursion in printing errors and it makes binmode unusable for cgiscript processes. These issues do not happen on other platforms.

When I have a little time I expect to investigate Perlbrew on Fedroa as an alternative. But I think we should consider stock Perl on Fedora to be unsupported at present.

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