Update: Having backed up everything and purged my machine, I retried both builds. The 813 msi still failed, but once I had again cleaned that off manually 815 msi installed clean. Also, AS have reverted from using javascript in their HTMLised docset in 815, so I can again use it with Opera without the annoyances described below.

I can't work out how to get the html for packages I've installed myself to show up in the AS index as they used to, but a clean Perl install is better than what I had.

</update>

Has anyone else had problems installing and/or using the last two AS perl 5.8.7 releases?

In particular,

  1. MSI installs that won't;

    Runs through to something like 95 or 98% completion then bellyaches about "a component of the installation gave the wrong return code", and then insists on backing out all the changes.

  2. HTML documentation that uses javascript and frames and is broken.

    When you expand an item in the index, the index get redrawn with the expanded item off the top of the frame so you cannot see it.

    Produces links in the HTMLized POD that use the IE extended url format that replaces the ':' in pathnames with '|', which other browsers don't understand and flag as a malicious attempt at misdirection.

  3. The Pod2HTML() subroutine that used to be a part of the ActivePerl::DocTools package seems to have gone walk-about.

    With the consequence that attempts to build CPAN packages that use EU::MM generated makefiles fail because that subroutine cannot be found.

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