Having had similar problems, I sympathise.

Perhaps, we could set up a single thread in say categeriszed answers under a question of "What pure perl modules are available" and everytime a conciencious Monk pull a module, they could post a one-line answer with a link to the module they found to be perl only, having checked that it hadn't already been listed 27,000 times:)

Seems like a simple machanism that would be of great reference value and need no infra-structure changes to set up?

As far as the Win32 stuff is concerned, it is possible to build XS modules to be compatible with AS. PodMaster seems to have the wherewithall for doing it, but it does seem like an imposition to have to ask someone else to do it for you. I'm not sure what loops PodMaster has to jump through to make this happen, but it seems a shame that AS themselves can't set up some sort of post-the-url-to-a-CPAN-style-tarball and-our-auto-build-robot-will-attempt-to-build-it-for-you page at their website. It could report back the results/errors from the attempt and if successful, add it to the appropriate PPM directory on their download site. Hmmm. Anyone got an AS support contract fancy forwarding that as a suggestion? I doubt it would make it past the small-round filing cabinet if it came from anyone without one.

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In reply to Re: The quest for pure perl by BrowserUk
in thread The quest for pure perl by rinceWind

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