[Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

2006-06-30 Thread Hugh Lampert
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: OK, don't mean to sound like a whiner here, and I haven't spent any time investigating the various GCC packages, but it's making me laugh that it's been suggested I download a C++ development package just so I can get my perl modules to install.

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

2006-06-30 Thread Christopher H. Laco
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: On 6/30/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The hassle is that we are a Windows shop and my boss only cares about results. To roll out an .ASP application is only a matter of using the resources that are already installed in the development

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

2006-06-30 Thread Matt S Trout
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: The problem is that I never managed to get Apache to run mod_perl properly without crashing. But maybe that's just me, since I've seen other people reporting the opposite. But it works fine enough for my current purposes under Apache::Registry. We've

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

2006-06-30 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 6/30/06, Christopher H. Laco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't do that. Bad things will happen. Always compiled your modules with the same compiler used for the perl install itself on Windows. To that point, you could compile perl in .NET, then do the modules that way too. FUD. VS.NET 2003

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN in a Windows Context

2006-06-30 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 6/30/06, Matt S Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that's the point - that AS has switched to gcc and it's *generally* preferable to use the same compiler as your perl binary was built with. There's nothing in the release notes indicating that they've done this (they've recently switched

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-29 Thread Hugh Lampert
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: On 6/28/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem. Hate to impose on the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a good win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-29 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 6/29/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, don't mean to sound like a whiner here, and I haven't spent any time investigating the various GCC packages, but it's making me laugh that it's been suggested I download a C++ development package just so I can get my perl modules to

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-29 Thread Matt S Trout
Hugh Lampert wrote: I mean I only want to finish my small app. My boss is going to split his gut when I tell him first I need to download a C++ dev package so I can install the application framework that actually is written in perl. Looks like I'll be sticking to whatever Catalyst modules

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-29 Thread Carl Franks
You may want to look into Vanilla / Strawberry perl as an alternative to ActivePerl. It includes the mingw (gcc) compiler and nmake, and the perl included is compiled from scratch with mingw, rather than ms compilers. http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vanilla_Perl The files are here (get

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Hugh Lampert
Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: On 6/26/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to let you know something amusing - I tried the preconfigured CPAN.pm that comes with ActiveState Perl 5.8.8. First, it took about 10 minutes to figure out I needed to type Enter+Space instead of

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Matt S Trout
Hugh Lampert wrote: Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote: On 6/26/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to let you know something amusing - I tried the preconfigured CPAN.pm that comes with ActiveState Perl 5.8.8. First, it took about 10 minutes to figure out I needed to type

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Hugh Lampert
Matt S Trout wrote: Once you've got CPAN configured and nmake and a gcc installed, http://shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install will install Catalyst itself plus deps hands-off via CPAN (with a little help from ppm on windows) Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem. Hate

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Joel Bernstein
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:09:13PM -0400, Hugh Lampert wrote: Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem. Hate to impose on the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a good win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or other environments?

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Matt S Trout
Hugh Lampert wrote: Matt S Trout wrote: Once you've got CPAN configured and nmake and a gcc installed, http://shadowcatsystems.co.uk/static/cat-install will install Catalyst itself plus deps hands-off via CPAN (with a little help from ppm on windows) Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN

2006-06-28 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 6/28/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Err, yes... gcc... seems to be a bit of a problem. Hate to impose on the members of the list, but can anyone point me in the direction of a good win32 binary GCC package that doesn't require Cygwin or other environments? the CPAN module was

Re: [Catalyst] PPM vs CPAN (Was: Problem with Catalyst Authorization)

2006-06-26 Thread Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior
On 6/26/06, Hugh Lampert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for responding! Perhaps you can forward this to the mailing list, as I am unable to reach it from my work (the mail server will not accept my relays.) Done. I'll answer your message without removing anything you wrote. I looked at the