On Mon, 09 Jan 2012, Brian Raven wrote: > On Mon, 09 Jan 2012, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > > > Well I tried upgrading to the newest Perl 5.14 which is also 64 bit > > capable. I discovered that Tk.pm is not yet available from ppm. > > So I backed off to 5.12 which says Tk.pm is available on the ppm > > web site. For reasons I have not yet figured out, I get timeouts > > accessing ppm4.activestate.com. > > Firewall/proxy settings? > > That address gets me redirected to http://code.activestate.com/ppm.
That should only happen for the build status pages. The actual repos do live on the ppm4 site. You can check access status for the ppm repos by running these commands: $ ppm repo sync --force Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done Updating ActiveState Package Repository database...done $ ppm log Last minute of /Users/jan/Library/Logs/ppm4.log: 2012-01-09T10:16:18 <6> [ppm:84] ppm help repo 2012-01-09T10:16:32 <6> [ppm:84] ppm repo sync --force 2012-01-09T10:16:33 <6> [Web.pm:102] GET http://ppm4.activestate.com/darwin/5.12/1204/package.xml ==> 200 OK (1459885 bytes in 1.20 sec - 1189 KB/s) 2012-01-09T10:16:56 <6> [ppm:84] ppm log > Looking up Tk suggests that the latest version (804.030) fails to > build, and the previous version (804.029) fails some tests for Perl > 5.14. Which is a shame. Fortunately for me all of my Tk scripts are > all on Linux. I have long since given up on Tk. I don't know if things have changed, but the new maintainers seemed to care only about Linux, so things were quite broken on Windows for quite a while. And it is legacy technology now anyways, as I doubt that it will ever be updated to a newer Tk version, so things like native themed widget support, or plain native OS X support will not be possible. [...] > > Just as a slightly off topic question. Since my original question > > was answered with a top post, is this acceptable on this list? The > > guys on the Fedora lists get all bent out of shape if someone top > > posts. > > My preference with regard to top posting is probably with the Fedora > guys, as this post might suggest. However, a lot of the posters to > this list seem to prefer top posting (or just use a mail agent that > encourages it). I would complain, but I think I would be swimming > against the tide. Plus, I can find more interesting things to do than > get worked up about it. My preference is inline replies too, but more than top posting, I do hate HTML email for inline replies. So I'll either ignore HTML posts altogether, or I'll answer them with a top posted answer... Rarely, when I really want to reply inline, I might make the effort to convert HTML messages back to plain text. But it makes me think twice if I really have to reply at all. :) Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
