On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:41:33 -0600, "Richard A. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have always used PPM for installing modules on my Win32 (ActiveState) Perl
>and CPAN for installing on my Unix systems. Obviously PPM does not exist
>for Unix, but I see that CPAN does exist for Win32. What are
have a lot of threads.
-Original Message-
From: Felix Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:56 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Tom Gioconda
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Subject: RE: PPM vs. CPAN for use with ActivePerl, and fork emulation
Brian,
thread safe. I think others may have been
under that impression as well.
Felix
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Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 3:00 AM
To: Tom Gioconda
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Subject: RE: PPM vs. CPAN for use with ActivePerl, and
Tom Gioconda writes:
> The reason the Active State PPMs can be assume to be thread safe is
> because ActiveState only makes PPMs from CPAN modules that can be be
> built as thread safe.
As I recall the criteria for including modules from CPAN in the PPM
archive were that they build, pa
