Soren Andersen wrote:
> It is a
> seriously considerable list of tools that are no way going to be on a
> typical Win user's system. And differing licensing issues for some of those
> tools might very well preclude any notion of "bundling" them into some
> special download archive for PPM.
I just looked at Config.pm. The requirements (on my system) are
satisfied by:
gzip
tar
nmake
libwww-perl (to get stuff via FTP or HTTP)
nmake is available from Microsoft, but I believe that dmake or GNU make
could be used.
gzip and tar are available in various GNU forms.
An external FTP program is only necessary if libwww-perl is not
installed.
I'm pretty sure that compatible versions of tools could be provided from
free (GPL
or Perl license) software.
And these could be put together into a PPM just like perl stuff is
(they'd get
stuffed into \perl\bin).
Another strategy would be to set up a CGI somewhere that builds (and
caches)
PPM files on demand from CPAN. Or to set up an automated procedure for
building
these.
I wonder -- with the availability of ActiveState's perl for Linux and
Unix systems --
whether the CPAN folks would consider providing a PPM archive as well?
--
Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
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