Still new to Perl, I'm trying to read/write a Win32-style ini, so I tried to load Avatar's Config::Ini ver. 1.08 using PPM.

I have ActiveState's v5.8.0 Perl and, as I understand the PPM error msg, it's saying it cannot load Config::Ini because I need Perl 5.8! Clearly, I'm misunderstanding something.

Thanks in advance for any help you might offer to clear my confusion.

Details follow:

I downloaded the Config-Ini.zip file, and extracted both the Config-Ini.tar.gz file (on the zip file, it had a path of "MSWin32-x86-multi-thread") and the Config-Ini.ppd file into my G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\ path.

Using ppm, I received the following error:

C:\ProgramFiles\Perl\bin>ppm  install  G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config
+-Ini\Confi
g-Ini.ppd
Installing package 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd
+'...
Error installing package 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-I
+ni.ppd': R
ead a PPD for 'G:\PerlCode\AddedModules\Config-Ini\Config-Ini.ppd', bu
+t it is no
t intended for this build of Perl (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8)


##################################

C:\ProgramFiles\Perl\bin>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall

Binary build 806 based on sources provided by
  ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 20:37:33 Apr 24 2003

######################################

The Config-Ini.ppd contents follow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOFTPKG NAME="Config-Ini" VERSION="1,08,0,0">
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="sun4-solaris-thread-multi/Config-Ini.tar.gz" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="sun4-solaris-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="solaris" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi/Config-Ini.tar.gz" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="PA-RISC1.1-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="hpux" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Config-Ini.tar.gz" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
    <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi/Config-Ini.tar.gz" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="hpux" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="i686-linux-thread-multi/Config-Ini.tar.gz" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="i686-linux-thread-multi" />
    <OS NAME="linux" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <CODEBASE HREF="IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-64all/Config-Ini.tar.g
+z" />
    <DEPENDENCY NAME="Tie-IxHash" VERSION="1,21,0,0" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi-64all" />
    <OS NAME="hpux" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <ABSTRACT>Perl interface to MS-Windows registry files, Windows .ini 
+and Unreal style .ini files.</ABSTRACT>
  <AUTHOR>Albert K. T. Hui (avatar@deva.net)</AUTHOR>
  <TITLE>Config-Ini</TITLE>
</SOFTPKG>

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