On 9/5/2013 5:18 PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
Hi, I see the last time I downloaded/compiled PAR was 2007... long time...
So I did keep reading the list, and so to get the latest pp, I
downloaded PAR-Packer-1.014, and tried to make it. It failed to find
IO/Compress/Gzip.pm
Alright, confession time: I'm using 32-bit Perl 5.8.8 on XP... because
I have some C extensions that I wrote/debugged with 5.8.8, and I have
no clue what it would take to get them to work with newer Perl, and I
wanted to get a new version of my application (it's been running great
since 2007!) with a new feature, and although I've gotten two new
development machines since 2007, and didn't have Perl installed with
all the packages, I thought the fastest track to the goal would be to
use the Perl form 2007. But now I start to wonder.
So then I saw there was a newer version of IO-zlib than what is
installed, but trying to ppm that gives me a "failed 401 authorization
error" Is that because IO stuff has to be synced with the right
version of Perl, or ???? I've no clue on this one.
OK, I found http://community.activestate.com/node/9843 which explains
the 401 error, but no way will I pay $1000 to update a free program. So
the question is: is it better to convert to a different distribution of
5.8.8 or go to ActivePerl 5.16 or go to a different distribution of
5.16, for free program development?
--
Glenn
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