Hello Friends, I'm having a problem with PPM in Active Perl 5.010 build 1004.
I had my Perl installation in a non standard folder for Win32 (d:\usr). Today, I wanted to make a certain test with a new fresh installation of Perl, so I downloaded the installer and installed it in the default installation folder (C:\Perl), being careful about NOT selecting the options "Add Perl to Path" and "Associate pl files with Perl", since I already had set those settings in my system manually and according to my own needs with my previous still existent Perl installation. So, I saw what I wanted to see in the new fresh installation and then I uninstalled it from Control Panel / Add & Remove Programs. After uninstalling it, the folder C:\Perl was still in the hard drive with a couple of folders, so I deleted it. After all that, I discovered that my custom .pl association in the system was removed. Isn't that just wrong? I mean, I didn't let the installer make any changes to the pl extension or Perl path, so, why it decides to remove what it wasn't made by itself?? However, even though I think that's a horrible installer bug, that was "easy" to solve. The main problem I'm having now is that my original PPM (which by the way, is the same version of Perl) is installing new perl modules on the path "C:\Perl\site\lib", which is absolutely wrong. If I remove that folder, ppm will create it again when installing any new module. If I look at the preferences in the gui-ppm it shows 4 areas: D:\usr\lib, D:\usr\site\lib, C:\Perl\lib and C:\Perl\site\lib. I've been trying to find files or settings related to PPM in Windows registry, the Documents and Settings folder, the Windows and System32 folders and the Config.pm files in my perl installation, but I just cannot find how to make PPM forget about "C:\Perl". Anyway, I don't think those settings are inside the Perl installation folder (which it really should!) because I even reverted my Perl folder to its original state from my SVN repository, and the problem is still there. Can anybody please help me with this? Does anyone know where is PPM getting these settings from? Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Paco Zarabozo A. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list ActivePerl@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
