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My guess is that the message you got from PPM was trying to tell you that the PPM you downloaded did not contain a version of Win32::Lanman that was compiled for your version of Perl. I don't think it was telling you that some version of Win32::Lanman was not supported nor that Win32::Lanman is no longer support (just that you didn't manage to download something that was built for that version of Perl). What versions of what modules that ActiveState decides to make PPMs for what versions of Perl is mostly a matter of their whim.

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Re: Re: When do you abandon a module? (misinterp?)
by Marza (Vicar) on Feb 18, 2003 at 17:12 UTC

    You are correct sir! Guess my description was not wisely worded.

    The message received was:

    PPM> install win32-lanman
Install package 'win32-lanman?' (y/N): y
Installing package 'win32-lanman'...
Error installing package 'win32-lanman': Read a PPD for 'win32-lanman'
+, but it i
s not intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8)

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    Jenda's recompiling of it solved that!

    Guess I will have to get into compiling things!

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