Re: Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens

Has anybody tried this yet? See http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GRAHAMC/.

The distribution includes DBI, DBD::ODBC modules, which makes a lot of sense (I don't know why ActiveState doesn't make that the default for Win32 ports).

It includes RTF::Document and RTF::Group... nice to have some of my modules included but 1. nobody asked me (*) and 2. both are horribly buggy. O(h yeah, RTF::Group is an experimental module that has no use without the as-yet unreleased generator modules.)

Too bad it's only version 5.005.

UPDATE: (*) I did E-mail the maintainer of the build.

Also noticed Spreadsheet::WriteExcel, Storable, FreezeThaw, GD, GDGraph, and some other useful non-standard modules.

It has potential if they're supporting and encouraging Perl.

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Re (tilly) 2: Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 17, 2001 at 23:23 UTC
IMNSHO, the fact that it is version 5.005 means that they did their research. That is a good sign.	[reply]
Re: (2) Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens (!PPM for Perl on Win) by ybiC (Prior) on Feb 18, 2001 at 02:03 UTC
I'm tinkering with use of SiePerl as we speak, er type. What I hope to get from it is Perl on my couple Win2k boxes - without the limitations of PPM and ActivePerl. Soon as I figure out dmake, nmake or such on Win2k, I should be able to use CPAN modules beyond those included in the distribution or available with PPM. 8^) I was about to embark on compiling Perl source, so this should save me some work. But I see no reason to use it with OS's that already include Perl, like on my trusted Debian hosts. cheers, Don striving for Perl Adept (it's pronounced "why-bick")	[reply]
Re: Re: (2) Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens (!PPM for Perl on Win) by rrwo (Friar) on Feb 20, 2001 at 01:12 UTC
I've gotten ActiveState to work with CPAN modules, but it takes a lot of tinkering and mixed results. Also, installation of Cygwin and few Unixish extras floating around like ncftp etc. The biggest problem I find is that some bleeding-edge module versions don't compile or they fail tests if they do compile with Visual C++.	[reply]
Re^2: Perl Binary Distributions from Siemens by belg4mit (Prior) on Nov 07, 2004 at 16:45 UTC
WTF do you mean nobody asked you? It's on CPAN, and seems to have the same license as perl. You don't need to be asked. If you didn't want people using it don't upload it to CPAN.	[reply]