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• Recent experience with CPAN/ports (Score:2)

  by samtregar (2699)

  While working on a 5.8.0 threading experiment I had the idea to test my program under Windows, figuring that it might uncover some unportable assumptions in my use of threads. So I headed over to ActiveState.com only to discover that ActivePerl isn't running 5.8.0 yet. Next stop, CPAN/ports, where I encountered a similar situation. Shouldn't we provide a pre-built binary of 5.8.0 for Windows? I'm sure I'm not alone in running my Windows systems without a compiler installed!

  If there's a general lesson
  • Re:Recent experience with CPAN/ports (Score:3, Informative)

    by jhi (318)

    Shouldn't we provide a pre-built binary of 5.8.0 for Windows?

    Ahhh, okay. Let's clear one misconception away: we (as we the CPAN) don't provide any of the builds. Other people do. Either via their PAUSE accounts, or external sites, or in some rare cases CPAN hosts a copy of a binary directly under the CPAN/ports/ (usually when the user does not have the disk space or a public server to host the binary themselves).

    In other words: the Ports is a metaservice.

    In other words: Win32 Perl 5.8.0 will a
    • Re:Recent experience with CPAN/ports (Score:2, Informative)

      by rkobes (1699) on 2002.08.31 22:53 (#12420) Homepage

      We have a perl-5.8 Win32 binary distribution under ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/, as perl-5.8-win32-bin.tar.gz. It was compiled with VC++, and comes with Apache2/mod_perl-2, and a number of common modules. It unpacks into Apache2/ and Perl/ subdirectories, with a top-level INSTALL file.

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      • Re:Recent experience with CPAN/ports (Score:2)

        by jhi (318)

        How stable is this /pub/other for the win32 build going to be? If stable enough (as in: it's not going to go away before 5.8.1 comes out), I could add a link to the ports page.
        
        • Re:Recent experience with CPAN/ports (Score:1)

          by rkobes (1699)

          I intend to have the perl-5.8-win32-bin.tar.gz in ftp://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/pub/other/ [uwinnipeg.ca] around for as long as it's useful (probably at least until ActiveState releases a 5.8 build). It'll be routinely updated, especially the Apache-2/modperl-2 side.