On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Lawrence Hixson wrote: > > Mark: > Thanks! I got DBD-pg version 2.17.2 for ActivePerl from wxPerl ! > > Jan: > It would be nice if ActiveState could please note here > http://code.activestate.com/ppm/DBD-Pg/ that the module is actually > available from wxPerl, since they are misreporting that 'there aren't > any builds for it in the package repositories" when there are, albeit > from another suggested repository you folks are aware of.
Well, first of all, ActivePerl 5.12.2 build 1203 and later already include DBD-Pg, so there is no need to install it from PPM unless PPM has a later version (but see below). The http://code.activestate.com/ppm currently only knows about repositories maintained by ActiveState, so it won't show any packages available from any other repos. This is intentional, and unlikely to change, at least in the near future. You are correct that the ActiveState repos currently don't include any builds of DBD-Pg, as they don't have the Pg libs and headers installed. We also build with some non-standard requirements (statically linked against Pg, using VC6 as the compiler to link against msvcrt.dll instead of msvcrXX.dll), so we'll need to create corresponding distroprefs or patches to build it automatically (these requirements are mostly due to make it easy to create *small* wrapped applications with PerlApp or PAR). We'll eventually get around to this, but since DBD::Pg is now part of core ActivePerl this seems like a lower priority issue. > DBD-pg Module Maintainers: > Can some one of your module maintainers please add some brief text to > the module's perlpod on CPAN to inform ActiveState users that they can > get this module from the wxPerl PPM repository? Thanks again all! I'm not sure this is really necessary. Maybe just add that the module is included in the latest ActivePerl builds is sufficient, if you want to mention it at all. Cheers, -Jan
