Re: Alternative to Carp::ret_backtrace?

[batkins]

Carp will definitely work with Perl 5.6. You don't have to install it, but whoever is threatening to take away your customer's Linux support really needs to wise up - most Perl scripts will need some kind of module installed at some time or another and it's pretty childish to make blanket policies like that.

But this shouldn't be a problem because Carp is included in the core Perl distribution. So just use Carp; and you should be fine.

[Beechbone]

Sorry, I thought it was clear:

The problem is that Carp is a core-only module, so we cannot update Carp to v1.01 without updating the whole Perl installation...

Installing modules is not a problem, or to be more exact, is just the problem of the poor guy who has to make rpms from the CPAN tgzs ;-))

[batkins]

Ah, OK. The problem still isn't insurmountable. Just get the Carp distribution off CPAN. Then copy Carp.pm into the same directory as your script, make a Carp directory (also in the same directory as your script), and then copy Carp/Heavy.pm into the Carp folder.

[Anonymous Monk]

The problem is that Carp is a core-only module, so we cannot update Carp to v1.01 without updating the whole Perl installation...

That's simply not true -- read perlmodinstall

[Beechbone]

Which part of that pod? That about Decompressing or Unpacking a .tar.gz?

I checked again, there is no standalone Carp at http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Carp/.