Dear (senior?) monks,

I made a beginner's error some days ago installing Perl with several modules on a MS box using Activestate. The error was to install a module that was already installed by default. Not much of an error until you consider an inconsistency in Activestate's configuration, to wit, a different, and wrong, version got installed. The upshot was that ppm was busted.

I escaped from this cul-de-sac thanks to two pieces of luck. The module in question was not compiled, and tachyon's module installation guide was so clearly laid out that even I remembered it from previous wanderings among the catacombs.

I was so grateful that a measely vote hardly seemed adequate. And this is far from my first serendipidy among your pages, but this time I just wanted to take a moment to say something.

Enlivened links - dvergin 2003-12-04