Exactly.

ActiveState completely screwed the pooch.

MSWin32-x86-multi-thread means for 5.6.x, MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8 means for 5.8.x.

ActiveState released perl 5.8 with perl-V:archname reporting the same as that for 5.6.x, and nobody noticed for a while because ppm was requesting stuff from the activestate 5.8 repository. When people started adding other repositories a while later, the bug was reported and the brilliant fix was to patch ppm. Config.pm was left untouched, and if you modify Config.pm, you'll break ppm (and maybe MakeMaker or Module::Build, because one/both of them have the same workaround).

If you have ppm3, you have nothing to worry about, if you have ppm2, you need my patch (7258).

I've also read (don't recall exactly where) that "Error: no suitable installation target found for package" can also occur if the ppd is some kind of malformed utf8 or something like that.

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

In reply to Re^3: B::Generate for Win32? by PodMaster
in thread B::Generate for Win32? by BrowserUk

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