On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:02:41AM +0100, Tels wrote: > Moin, > > On Friday 27 January 2006 23:43, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > Jeffrey Thalhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Randy Kobes distributes Win32 PPMs for some of the > > > modules that ActiveState doesn't provide. It is not > > > entirely automated, so the latest code isn't always > > > available. But Randy is very helpful if there's > > > anything you want to see. > > > > > > http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ > > > > What is actually happening on ppm.activestate.com, is that only > > modules that pass all their unit tests are packaged for the general > > public. IMHO this is a great idea, since then people who are "ppm > > installing" stuff from activestate repoes can be reasonably(*) > > confident that the package will work on their system. > [snip a bit] > > Yes, but most modules shouldn't (or don't) fail tests. And yet Math::Big > for instance can't be build by ActiveState for linux :-/ > > It would be good if first pure-perl modules that don't require much to > work (like Math::BigInt::foo) could be made to work :) > > See here: > > http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-linux/linux-5.8/Math-BigInt-Constant-1.06.txt > > That shouldn't happen.
Yikes, that's perl 5.8.0! What is that about? Looking in the http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-linux/linux-5.8/ directory, I don't even see any attempt to build the required newer version of Math-BigInt. Very strange.
