On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:37:01PM +0100, Tels wrote: > Moin, > > On Friday 27 January 2006 22:26, Luke Closs wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:30:47AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >* for windows only > > > > >* only includes Foo-Bar, but not it's dependecies > > > > > > > > It will auto-install dependencies just like CPAN, I believe. And, > > > > yes, it's currently Windows-only. Didn't you offer bonus points > > > > for Windows?? > > > Um, no it isn't! > > > http://ppm.activestate.com/ > > > PPMs are built for a variety of platforms, windows, OSX, and various > > > unixes. > > > You can download ActivePerl for these platforms here: > > > http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Download.plex?id=Active > > >Perl > > > I'm somewhat new to the Perl community, so I don't know much history > > about PPM + perl, but I think PPM is actually a pretty good tool. > > Except that it seems to not be able to build most stuff on the two most > common platforms. Looky here: > > http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-G.html > > GD cant be build. Graph::Easy can't be build on quite a few things because > Scalar-List-Util can't be build, etc. etc. In fact, the entire page under > "G" looks scary with so much red. > > Graph::Easy and GD work just fine when compiled with CPAN/manually under > Linux, but aren't available via PPM. That basically makes it useless for > me :)
These are issues with ActiveState's PPM building process, not the idea of using PPM for package distribution, no? Luke -- Luke Closs PureMessage Developer There is always time to juggle in the Sophos Zone.
