no worries grateful for the support anyway.i have dwimperl, rakudo and the latest strawberry perl on windows8 all as .msi. the plugin is still a tarball. i swear ive havent worked this hard for something in a little while

thanks steve. Just retried the plugin installation. Worked this time.

do you know any other useful plugins and modules for perl6?

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From today's Perl 6 advent calendar blog post:

First, I’d like to point out that the imminent Christmas Release is largely not concerned with the topic of this post. I’ll leave it to someone more qualified to qualify the release in more precise terms but suffice it to say {the Christmas Release} is about the Perl6 language and at least one implementation. That does not include non-core ecosystem concerns such as: {modules}, distribution, searching, installing, testing services, linters, etc… In the Perl5 world these things are collectively known as “CPAN” and are a huge part of what makes Perl5 useful to many.

The second item I’d like to bring to your attention is that we’ve had an ecosystem solution for quite some time now. Its basically a collection of repos hosted at github (https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/blob/master/META.list), which can be searched (modules.perl6.org) and installed (panda or zef).

Note that a lot of ecosystem modules have been broken by recent changes and not yet been made to again work properly, or at least pass their test suites, or even build. Additionally, the zef module installer was broken by very recent changes and may not yet be working again. In general, the last few months have seen the most module breakage I've seen in the last 4 years.

Hth.

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