Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-04 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Offer Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.. A

Re: Binary distributions

2006-02-04 Thread Offer Kaye
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 ver