Check out the ActiveState faq under Upgrading from ActivePerl 5.8.x. Apparently, you can save your 'PPM Profile' thus:

ppm install PPM-Profile
ppmprofile save C:\profile.xml
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Then, when you have installed 5.10:

ppm install PPM-Profile
ppmprofile restore C:\profile.xml
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However (disclaimer), I haven't tried this yet...

Thanks NaN :) -
I've got :
... ActivePerl v.5.8.8.822
... PPM v. 4.02, 2007 ActiveState SW. Inc.

c:\ppm install PPM-Profile
installs :
... C:\Perl\site\bin\ppmprofile.pl
... C:\Perl\site\bin\ppmprofile.bat
... C:\Perl\html\bin\ppmprofile.html


C:\Perl\site\bin>ppmprofile save C:\profile.xml
ppmprofile.bat save is not supported for PPM4 yet at ppmprofile.bat line 94.

cat ppmprofile.bat :


.
.
91 sub save {
92    my $profile = shift @ARGV || 'profile.xml';
93    
94    die "$0 save is not supported for PPM4 yet" if PPM4;
95
96    open(my $fh, ">", $profile)
97      || die "Can't open profile file:" . "$profile ($!)";
.
.
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OOps, seems my version of PPM doesn't support ppmprofile save / restore ... So I guess i'll have to try the other option in Upgrading from ActivePerl 5.8.x.


... 1 Use Window's Add / Remove Programs applet (accessible from the Control Panel) to uninstall ActivePerl.
... 2 Manually delete all directories beneath the Perl installation directory (by default C:\Perl) except the site\lib directory.
... 3 Install ActivePerl to the same directory (i.e., C:\Perl).
... 4 Use the ppm upgrade command to check for module updates.

Has anyone tried that yet ?
Best regards /
allan

Hmm, I have the same problem:

ppmprofile.bat save is not supported for PPM4 yet...

Here's what I intend to try as a workaround when I upgrade to 5.10. Any suggestions for improvement welcome.

(1) At the command line, run this command:

ppm list --fields name > C:/my_modules.txt

(2) Uninstall 5.8, install 5.10 (as per the ActiveState instructions that you quote).

(3) Run the following script:

open my $fh, '<', 'C:/my_modules.txt' or die "Oops: $!\n";
while ( <$fh> ) {
  chomp;
  print "Installing $_...\n";
  system ( "ppm", "install", $_ );
}
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A bit of a kludge? but better than trying to do the whole thing manually???

So I guess i'll have to try the other option in Upgrading from ActivePerl 5.8.x

No - those instructions relate to upgrading from one version of perl 5.8.x to a more recent version of perl 5.8.x. But they don't apply to upgrading from 5.8.x to 5.10.x.

In step 2, the site/lib directory also needs to be deleted since it could (and almost certainly would) contain modules that are binary-incompatible with 5.10.

Cheers,
Rob

It is less of a burden than it seems: by installing MinGW you get yourself a compiler which is compatible with AS Perl and then CPAN can install most of the modules by itself (after making first a snapshot bundle of your existing modules). The few which refuse to be installed by CPAN I download with ppm.