On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 16:41:33 -0600, "Richard A. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have always used PPM for installing modules on my Win32 (ActiveState) Perl >and CPAN for installing on my Unix systems. Obviously PPM does not exist >for Unix, but I see that CPAN does exist for Win32. What are the pros and >cons of using PPM or CPAN on the Win32 platform? FYI: PPM *does* exist for Linux and Solaris as well as for Win32. The PPM repository just contains precompiled CPAN modules that are easy to install, even if you don't have the necessary C compiler. This is less of an issue on Unix than on Windows of course. As to the discussions later in this thread about ActiveState verifying the thread safetyness of PPM packages: This is simply not true. CPAN modules must compile and link without errors and must pass their own regression tests. If any of those steps fails, the package will not be included (because it most likely wouldn't work anyways). -Jan _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/activeperl
