[freeside-users] Perl error

[Ivan Kohler]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 08:47:52AM -0500, Dave Burgess wrote:
> Just to echo Ivan's comments, at one point I had FreeSide running on 
> NetBSD, so I doubt the subtle differences between Ubuntu and Debian 
> are the source of the problem.

Most of the time it isn't differences in the base OS that cause folks 
difficulty.

More often there's a bug or incompatibility or some other problem with 
one of the CPAN dependencies.  Not usually a big deal for someone with 
the necessary sysadmin/CPAN/Perl stack experience, but not something 
everyone in 2015 who expected a "./compile; make install"-like 
experience is comfortable with.

The easiest thing for folks who have problems with that would be to use 
Debian or the VMWare appliance.

Again if folks are interested in better support for Ubuntu we would be 
thrilled to have some community contribution here, and would be happy to 
host repositories, auto-builders, and so forth.  Unlike hacking on the 
application itself (which admittedly has gotten tougher for casual 
contributors as things have got larger and more complex), this is an 
easier place for folks to contribute.


> All production versions of perl 5.8.4 and later are supported/compatible.
> 
> > on the latest Ubuntu LTS.
> 
> On Ubuntu, folks with advanced sysadmin and Perl stack experience have 
> certianly gotten the software running.
> 
> Debian is the most popular OS for running Freeside, and the one which we 
> support with a full set of tested, packaged prerequisites (and soon 
> Freeside packages too).  Debian OS releases now have five years of 
> support (like Ubuntu LTS).
> 
> If the community would like better support for Ubuntu, please step up 
> and contribute (to Ubuntu-specific install documentation, to a 
> repository of Perl library prerequisites, to making the Freeside .deb 
> packages build and work on Ubuntu, etc.)


-- 
_ivan