From: Matthew Keene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There seem to be quite a lot of modules missing from the PPMPackage > list for the 8xx builds (from > http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/). > I'm specifically looking for DBD::Oracle(8), but there are 3448 > packages available for 6xx but only 2514 available for 8xx. Can > somebody explain what the difficulty is in making these packages > available for Perl 5.8 ? Are the 8xx packages limited to those known > to be thread-safe, and does this explain all the differences ? (I'm > hap py to be patient for them to become available, I'm just curious as > to what the problems are.)
There had been a discussion about this in this mailing list recently (or maybe it was in Perl-win32-Users or someplace like that, but I believe it was here) which may be found in the archives at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/ and there is now a new mailinglist specifically for PPM related issues at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ppm As Jan Dubois said the automated build process needs some work. But he's working on that and it should soon get much better :-) Jenda P.S.: You may want to add a few more repositories: http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8 http://www.roth.net/perl/packages http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
