Re: PPM and 'mismatched tag at line 9, column 2...'

[Henning Michael Møller-Nielsen]

At 13:48 02-05-00 -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
>On Tue, 02 May 2000 12:33:42 +0200, Henning Michael Møller-Nielsen
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I get this error when trying to install Win32::DriveInfo through PPM:
>>
>>Install package 'win32-driveinfo?' (y/N): y
>>Retrieving package 'win32-driveinfo'...
>>
>>mismatched tag at line 9, column 2, byte 612 at
>>C:/perl/site/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 183
>>
>>(well, I get it with practically all modules, but this example holds)
>
>This is a bogus error message.  It actually means that ppm couldn't find
>the package description (probably because it doesn't exist).  You have to
>download Win32::DriveInfo from Mikes site and install it manually.
>
>-Jan

Ah - Mike's mail reminded me that I had downloaded it manually from his
site. I just got so used to PPM... Well, it's for a different installation
than my machine, but i did a manual trace on PPM and noticed that it went
looking for http://www.activestate.com/Packages/win32-driveinfo.ppd, which
redirects to
http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/5.005/win32-driveinfo.ppd which just
gives an error which is not valid XML...

I know it's almost like volunteering, but shouldn't there be a better error
handling of this in PPM? Or has that already been made in the PPM version
that comes with Perl 5.6?

/Henning


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