Hi Mark!
Mark Dootson wrote:
> Due to a somewhat extreme funding shortage, the Wx PPM repository
> site will be disappearing for a while.
>
> No doubt it will return in the near future when circumstances allow.
Sorry to hear that, Mark.
And to everyone else, since Mark is far too humble, allow me to
encourage everyone to join me in supporting all of Marks awesome
tireless and continual contributions to our community:
Maintaining the WxPerl CPAN package
http://search.cpan.org/~mdootson/Wx-0.9909/
Building all these WX PPM packages and hosting the repository:
http://www.wxperl.co.uk/wxppm/
Creating the Most Excellent Cava Packager and making it "free to use"
http://www.cavapackager.com/
Compiling, testing, packaging, and graciously supporting free
Windows binary packages of both the mingw GCC compiler and perl!
Citrus Perl: http://www.citrusperl.com and
Citrus GCC: http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlmingw
...and sure more that I've missed, overlooked or forgotten!
So, if you use, benefit from, learn from, and/or just like the idea of
all that Mark does and selflessly gives back to the rest of us, and you
would like to express your thanks to him in Dollars, Euros or Pounds
Sterling.... please visit https://www.znix.com/donation/ early and often
and do what it says there!
Or, better still, avail yourself of his most excellent Perl on Windows
consultation and support services: http://www.znix.com
Thanks for all you do, Mark!
-dave
PS: A note to anyone in the U.S. planning to make a donation using a
Citibank (Mastercard, in my case): Worldpay might decline the
transaction and then, about 30 minutes letter, send you a *text* message
from "Citi Cards Fraud Dept" asking you to "Reply 1" if you "made a
charge at WP-MARK DOOTSON" (or reply 2 if not) and when you reply 1,
text you again that your card is now "available for use". WTF? Why
wasn't it "available" when I tried to use it? lol
I *guess* that means I could go back now and try using that card again,
but by the time i got their text I'd already completed the donation
using a different card (Capital One) instead... How lame, Citibank -- I
mean, thanks for looking out and all, but too little, too late, methinks.
