Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-15 Thread Tels
Moin, On Tuesday 14 March 2006 23:24, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Golden wrote: > > Steve Peters wrote: > > > The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl > > > function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This > > > was changed with Perl 5.8

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-15 Thread Adam Kennedy
The main reason this is hapenning is that it's not currently possible to update CORE packages in ActivePerl, so any module that depends on a CORE package can be suffering from this. This problem will persist until it becomes possible to update core packages in ActivePerl. It's certainly not an id

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-15 Thread demerphq
On 3/14/06, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Golden wrote: > > Steve Peters wrote: > > > The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl > > > function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This was > > > changed with Perl 5.8.8. Onc

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
David Golden wrote: > So back at the beginning of February, there was some email traffic about > how ActiveState's automated PPM build system was using an outdated > version of Scalar-List-Utils, which was causing a cascading prerequisite > failure for many distributions. > > Has anyone heard a

RE: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Golden wrote: > Steve Peters wrote: > > The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl > > function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This was > > changed with Perl 5.8.8. Once ActiveState releases a Perl 5.8.8, > > they should be able

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread David Golden
Philippe M. Chiasson wrote: It's not that simple a problem, exactly. The PPM build servers are all running one the first ActivePerl release for that platform. That way, forward binary compatibility can be guaranteed going forward. I wondered if that was the cause of it. Still, that means that

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread Randy W. Sims
David Golden wrote: Steve Peters wrote: The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This was changed with Perl 5.8.8. Once ActiveState releases a Perl 5.8.8, they should be able to upgrade the version of Scalar-

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread David Golden
Steve Peters wrote: The problem was that newer Scalar-List-Utils uses an internal Perl function that Windows does not see as an exported function. This was changed with Perl 5.8.8. Once ActiveState releases a Perl 5.8.8, they should be able to upgrade the version of Scalar-List-Utils that they

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread Tyler MacDonald
David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So back at the beginning of February, there was some email traffic about > how ActiveState's automated PPM build system was using an outdated > version of Scalar-List-Utils, which was causing a cascading prerequisite > failure for many distributions. >

Re: Activestate and Scalar-List-Utils

2006-03-14 Thread Steve Peters
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:12:43PM -0500, David Golden wrote: > So back at the beginning of February, there was some email traffic about > how ActiveState's automated PPM build system was using an outdated > version of Scalar-List-Utils, which was causing a cascading prerequisite > failure for m