On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:19:11AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > It has recently come to my attention that ActiveState does not supply PPMs > for CPAN modules that use Module::Build in their build process.
I believe you are mistaken. Here's Module::Build itself and another Build.PL based module in their 8xx PPM repository. http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/Module-Build-0.25.zip http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/Module-Install-0.36.zip Looking at PPM::Make it does appear to have code to handle Build.PL. What probably has happened is the particular modules you depend on are not in ActiveState's PPM repository. This will happen. > I have received a > support request for one of the CPAN modules that I maintain asking me not to > have dependencies on modules that use Module::Build. This places me in an > uncomfortable position. Its a little silly as Module::Build based modules should install just fine on Windows, easier than MakeMaker based ones since they don't need make! Its pure Perl (unless there's XS involved). So I'd just recommend to your requestor that they build the dependencies from scratch rather than rely on ActiveState for everything. If there's XS invovled then they should have a chat with ActiveState about it. Its not really your problem. > Why has ActiveState decided to isolate their ActivePerl users from a growing > fraction of the CPAN? DON'T PANIC! They haven't. They can, however, be a little slow keeping their PPM repository up to date. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Death follows me like a wee followey thing. -- Quakeman
