On 1/28/06, Tels wrote: > > Of course you must reliaze that, except for pure-perl modules and very > controlled environments, binary distributions are doomed to fail. > > You simple cannot guess what libraries/compiler/system/kernel the user > has installed, unless you know the distribution and version *and* require > that the user never updates anything. >
This email, and the entire discussion that followed, was very Linux centric. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for Windows this argument is a non-issue, right? I mean, compile a module for Windows and it will most likely work for all versions. Or at least the latest ones (2000/XP). Why not start off by providing ppm.cpan.org (as the OP suggested for linux distors), or something similar? There are many modules that I want to use where the PPM version provided by ActiveState or some other repository is badly of out date.. I guess that many more people use Perl on Linux boxes, but there are still uses for Perl on Windows... ;-) It would be wonderful to be able to fully use CPAN on Windows, with the same level of comfort that today's pre-packged PPM files already provide. Thanks, -- Offer Kaye
