Hi Michiel,
Yes, we will probably switch to 64-bit-only builds on OS X for Perl 5.18 next year. Switching the 5.16 builds right now will require setting up yet another PPM repo and build system, and will also not work well with the PPM Index pages. As for the GUI crash, I heard back from QA that this issue only happens on OS X 10.8 systems that have been upgraded from an earlier version of OS X, and not on fresh installs of Mountain Lion. That way it slipped through the release testing. Cheers, -Jan From: Michiel Beijen [mailto:michiel.bei...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:23 PM To: Jan Dubois Cc: activeperl@listserv.activestate.com Subject: Re: ActivePerl on OS X: ppm not working, no DBD::mysql PPM available Hi Jan, On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Jan Dubois <j...@activestate.com> wrote: I needed this myself before too, but the problem is that ActivePerl is a "fat" binary (contains executable code for both the 32-bit and 64-bit version in the same files). That means any modules must be built the same way, and there is no corresponding MySQL library in the same format. Maybe we should try to build a module manually just for 64-bit mode, but it will still require some manual effort to get this into the PPM setup. Of course I can not make decisions for ActiveState, but would it not make sense to build 64-bit only versions? OS X has been 64-bit only since Lion, which is about a year and a half now. I have no clue, but it *might* be easier to build 64-bit only than to try to fix the current 'fat' binaries to use 64-bit only builds in some cases. -- Mike
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