> I can't really see the point in what you are trying to do

it's really more about the freedom to be able to install any module from CPAN I may need without being held hostage by the lack of a package than about compiling perl.

I have found package support poor and to date I cannot make DBD::Sybase/Oracle work on anything above 5.6.0

> ppm> install DBD::Oracle

I get: 

Searching for 'DBD::Oracle' returned no results. Try a broader search 
+first.

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evn after adding the esoftmatic repository that olivierp pointed me to... and if I download the files myself and install them e.g. /ppm install DBD-Sybase.ppd/, trying to use I get errors: 
perl -le '
use DBI; use DBD::Sybase;
'

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yields: 
The context allocation routine failed.
The following problem caused the failure:
Invalid context version.

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it is SO painful to work in w2k! ah!!!

In reply to Re^2: perl on win2k by ekkis
in thread perl on win2k by ekkis

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