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in thread On installing modules with CPAN.pm

You are entirely correct. I had missed the line stating its limitation to MySQL and Postgres -- I confess I didn't read the entire POD through. In my defense, I did look -- but I was looking for a BUGS or LIMITATIONS type of section, and the limitation is listed in the DESCRIPTION section.

Win32 support in Perl is nothing short of incredible. When I was able to follow *identical* directions (from perlxstut) on Windows and Linux to flawlessly produce an XS module from h2xs, I nearly fell out of my chair.

And, yes, I am in the minority. But it just grates me when something won't work because they did something like use `pwd` instead of use Cwd, or something depends on a case-sensitive filesystem (there was another meditation on that recently).

However, I wonder I would have been spared the IO::Zlib trouble I suffered on any other OS...

--Stevie-O 
$"=$,,$_=q>|\p4<6 8p<M/_|<('=>
.q>.<4-KI<l|2$<6%s!<qn#F<>;$,
.=pack'N*',"@{[unpack'C*',$_]
}"for split/</;$_=$,,y[A-Z a-z]
         {}cd;print lc

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