> I have an intense dislike of the new msi installer format. Its
> basically a way of making the download more awkward than before with
> no marked benefits. The benefits that you were supposed to get were
> that you can run most of the apps from the cd saving harddrive space,
> problem with this is when you *Shock Gasp Horror* use more than one of
> them at a time. For internet downloads MSI is just a stupid idea.
> (IMHO)
What really scared me is that when I downloaded and ran the installer it
restarted my computer, and then I tried to run perl and I found I hadn't
actually installed anything (even though it told me that it was complete)
> Active State still has it as Sub::Approx. Also when using ppm you need
> to use -'s rather than ::
> e.g.: ppm install Symbol-Approx-Sub (Which won't work due to no
> package.)
Why? For gawds sake, why! And if it is being that odd, why doesn't it at
least warn me when I ask for things with '::' in there.
How does an author go about setting up these wonderful ppm thingys. I
shall have to investigate.
Merry Christmas
Mark.
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print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name => 'Mark Fowler', Title => 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm => 'Profero Ltd', Web => 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
