Windows .exe installer (non-MSI)

2000-11-04 Thread David Sparks
ActiveState has released a simple installation for Windows that doesn't use the Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) technology. This installer is only recommended in cases where people are unable to use the MSI installer. This is the basic description of what it does: # This program completes a

Re: "Not Intended for this build of Perl"

2001-06-08 Thread David Sparks
At 01:22 PM 07/06/2001, Gupta, Satish wrote: >PPM> install XML-CSV >Install package 'XML-CSV?' (y/N): y >Installing package 'XML-CSV'... >Error installing package 'XML-CSV': Read a PPD for 'XML-CSV', but it is >not inte >nded for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) This is caused by a

Re: Release of ActivePerl 5.8.0

2002-11-01 Thread David Sparks
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that we have been working on ActivePerl 5.8.0 and it is almost ready. We have run into a few problems preparing it, so ActivePerl 5.8.0 will have selected bug fixes merged in from the Perl maintenance track. ActivePerl 5.8.0-beta1 may or may not be released o

Re: PPM problems with ActiveState 5.8.0

2002-11-26 Thread David Sparks
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 03:57, Philip Morley wrote: > I have installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.0 build 802 and have noticed the > shell prompt when you start PPM seems to be wrong. Instead of: > > PPM> > > I get: > > ←[4;mppm> ←[1m > ←[0m←[4;mppm> ←[1m > > Any ideas why? I don't know what may be c