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Perl-Users Digest, Issue: 8801 Volume: 10
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 11:05:04 -0800 (PST)
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Perl-Users Digest Tue, 27 Dec 2005 Volume: 10 Number: 8801
Today's topics:
Re: perl, v5.8.7 Windows 2003 PPM 3.3 <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Re: Very serios perl problem? (BUG?) <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>
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Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:21:32 -0500
From: "Matt Garrish" <matthew.garrish@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: perl, v5.8.7 Windows 2003 PPM 3.3
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"Pekka Siiskonen" <pekka_news@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:dorh5f$rc4$1@phys-news4.kolumbus.fi...
>
> "Matt Garrish" <matthew....@....ca> wrote in message news:oh0rf.2853
>> Just to follow up, the reponse I got is that the faq will now read "PPM
>> (ppm) is installed automatically with ActivePerl.", and they're going to
> put
>> the CPAN shell stuff somewhere else, so hopefully no more confusion.
>
> So, the ActivePerl distribution was in purpose made such that it does not
> install a ready-to-run PPM nor warn that it hasn't done so, or ask if I
> would really like to have it, as I had opted to install the whole lot of
> PPM
> into hard disk?
>
> There must have been a good reason for quitting distribution of
> ready-to-run
> PPM from AvctiveState, but I fail to see it. What might that good reason
> be?
>
I think you've misunderstood. PPM comes with ActivePerl and *does not*
require anything else to run. When you install ActivePerl, you have a
working version of PPM. The documentation, however, made it read like you
needed nmake and a C compiler, which is only true when using the CPAN shell
and has nothing to do with PPM (i.e., running the command "perl -MCPAN -e
shell").
In case you don't know, the CPAN shell is the traditional way to download
and install modules from CPAN. It has nothing to do with PPM, and never
should have been mixed up in the install section of the PPM manual.
Matt
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Date: 27 Dec 2005 17:09:36 GMT
From: Robert Sedlacek <phaylon@dunkelheit.at>
Subject: Re: Very serios perl problem? (BUG?)
Message-Id: <43b17550$0$26903$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net>
Mihail <issakov@t-online.de> wrote
> And what about Larry Wall? I hope you have no problem with his
> understanding. :-) BTW. I have no doubt perl is great language.
Perl 5 != Perl 6. The reasons Perl 6 does things in other ways than Perl
5 are no excuse for not reading the documentation. Letting this aside,
you should be more cautious with your wording. Stating what a Perl
developer would expect and stating that there is a bug in perl *without*
having read the documentation won't bring you many friends in here.
--
There's a storm on the horizon. It's gonna be everywhere.
-- Michael Moynihan
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