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  • We have a better object system than you do! Just install Moose (but be aware that it might have backwards-incompatible changes in a few months)

    What changes in a few months? I am not aware of such plans. We are generally highly responsible about our backwards incompat changes. Changes happen and sometimes they are hard and ugly, this is the real world after all and they need to happen. But ...

    I suspect your just being sarcastic and playing the devils advocate here. Your right, having a decent object s

    • I'd be happy with a decent object system that is not in core if it didn't require half of CPAN as prerequisites. Here at work, I have yet to be able to resolve all of the dependencies. As soon as I get a minute or two to spare (wishful thinking really), I might actually be able to track down the troublesome module(s).

      • It shouldn't take too long since you only have 16 [cpantesters.org] non-core dependencies to go through. FWIW, I am pretty sure there are more then 32 modules on CPAN now, it has grown a lot in the past few years ;)

        Sorry, couldn't resist. But in all seriousness we would be happy to help with this either on IRC or the Moose mailing list. The biggest problem I have seen when installing Moose on a bare bones system (and yes I have done it many MANY times so I am empathizing and not mocking) is that we require more up to date versions of the Test:: toolchain, which can get quite ugly sometimes.

        - Stevan

        • Stevan, I just don't have the bandwidth to deal with it right now. As soon as things slow down here to only a relatively hectic pace then I'll try it again.

        • I bit the bullet today and finally got Moose installed.

          I installed the prereqs one by one starting from the bottom of the list. Once I thought I had them all installed, I tried to install Moose and it couldn't find about five of the prereqs so I bailed.

          I tried to install each of them again only to be told that four of the five were already installed. Class::MOP just did not want to install... Or so it seemed.

          I traced the problem to the order of my include paths. Once that was fixed, Class::MOP and Moose ins

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