ActiveState CPAN builds?

dws has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Although I've used ActiveState Perl for several years, I have little knowledge of their internal development practices. So after noticing that stuff seemed to have gone missing from PPM (e.g., POE, DBD-Mysql, and a couple of other things that I could have sworn where there the last time I looked), I did a bit of digging and found this (very large) CPAN Run Build Status page. It's actually quite cool that they would expose this info to the world, but it looks like a lot of stuff is broken.

Does anyone have insight into what's going on?

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Re: ActiveState CPAN builds? by Wysardry (Pilgrim) on Feb 22, 2003 at 02:09 UTC
I've no idea why ppm can't access many of the modules directly from their site recently, but the modules you mention are available as .zip ppm archives for 5.6.1 On a Windows system, if you have Perl in your path, and ppm is in the same directory, it's fairly simple to install from a .zip archive. Unpack the archive somewhere away from Perl. Open a DOS window, navigate to the directory you unpacked to, then type: `ppm install DBD-MySQL.ppd` (replacing "DBD-MySQL" with the module name, if different). Modules for 5.8.0 seem to be very thin on the ground though. __________ "Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." -- (Author Unknown)	[reply]

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Re: ActiveState CPAN builds?
by Wysardry (Pilgrim) on Feb 22, 2003 at 02:09 UTC

I've no idea why ppm can't access many of the modules directly from their site recently, but the modules you mention are available as .zip ppm archives for 5.6.1

On a Windows system, if you have Perl in your path, and ppm is in the same directory, it's fairly simple to install from a .zip archive.

Unpack the archive somewhere away from Perl. Open a DOS window, navigate to the directory you unpacked to, then type:
ppm install DBD-MySQL.ppd
(replacing "DBD-MySQL" with the module name, if different).

Modules for 5.8.0 seem to be very thin on the ground though.

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"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." -- (Author Unknown)

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