I can do that. I have a TON of experience maintaining perl distros, including the CPAN modules that go with them. I can talk about the problems involved and windows vs UNIX issues.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Fraser Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > That would be good, sort of a PERL innards, but it needs to include those > lazy folks (Windows users) such as myself. > > Fraser > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Mark Allen <[email protected]> > *To:* Houston.pm located in Houston, TX. <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 8:35 AM > *Subject:* Re: [pm-h] Error 401 Authorization Required > > Maybe we should have a Perl install fest for one of our meetings! > > Mark > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Mike Flannigan <[email protected]> > *To:* "Houston.pm located in Houston, TX." <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 7:44 AM > *Subject:* Re: [pm-h] Error 401 Authorization Required > > > On 3/15/2013 6:41 AM, Mark Allen wrote: > > Out of sheer curiosity why stick at 5.8? > > > > No particular reason. I upgraded once from > ActivePerl-5.6.1.635 to 5.8 (back in 2003) and > then just remained there. Then I finally decided > to upgrade 2 months ago, but it didn't go well. > > I just found this note dated 12/22/2012 that > I posted to Perl Beginners. I wrote both > parts of this: > > ___________________________________________________ > > > Please ignore the post below. The answer is that > it tries to install to C:/Perl64, but for some > odd reason never creates that directory, or at > least I can't see it or get to it by typing the > address into file explorer, even though it says > it installs fine. > > This version of ActiveState also won't install over > the older version. You have to delete the older > version to get this to install. > > I don't think ActiveState is doing such a great > job of maintaining this Perl for non-business > users. That is my opinion. > > It's not working now, so I will have other > questions to post soon. > > > > ___________________________________________________ > > > > Just tried to upgrade from 5.8.0 to 5.16.1 (64bit) > on one of my machines. Ran this: > ActivePerl-5.16.1.1601-MSWin32-x64-296175.msi > and it installed fine, but I can't find it. > > I normally keep Perl in C:/Perl, but when I > go there it's still 5.8.0. I did a search for 'active' > and '16.1' and 'Perl' and 'bin', but can't find it anywhere. > > I also checked the documentation for install location, > but didn't find it. > > This is on Win7. > > I just found at this location: > http://tinyurl.com/dxmh9oe > that "Perl is installed by default in C:\Perl". That > is where I want it, but it doesn't look like it whet > there. I have perl.exe, perl5.6.1.exe, and perl5.8.0.exe > files in C:/Perl/bin. The newest file in that directory > is libeay32.dll from 2/2012. > > > Very odd. If anybody knows where it installs please > let me know. > > > Mike Flannigan > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Houston mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/houston > Website: http://houston.pm.org/ > -- Todd Rinaldo [email protected]
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