Re: HTML::Index module -- what's the story?

[Anonymous Monk]

First of all, it hasn't been updated since 2003, secondly it wouldn't install for some reason, but thirdly, I don't really mind that it didn't install because, looking back, as part of the installation it was installing Lingua::Stem modules for half of Europe. That's way over the top for what I wanted to do.

1) HTML::Index doesn't attempt to install any modules

2) HTML::Index only requires Lingua::Stem

3) If you're having problem installing HTML::Index, there is very little hope you'll find any solution to your problem.

[snowhare]

1 & 2) HTML::Index doesn't 'install' anything, but it does require Lingua::Stem, BerkeleyDB, HTML::TreeBuilder, Carp::Assert and Compress::Zlib - which 'cpan' helpfully does try to install.

3) HTML::Index doesn't appear to pass its own build tests on either 5.8.x or 5.6.x, apparently because the number of build tests it declares is different than the number it actually runs for some unknown reason. I don't think the OP is unreasonable in thinking that that is a significant problem with the distribution.