in reply to PPM module installs hang "Generating HTML"

The ActiveState distribution of Perl is just like any other distribution and you are not limited to using PPM to install additional modules. As a matter of fact, I only use PPM if everything else fails and normally use the "perl -MCPAN -e shell" magic invocation to install modules.

This works fine for all modules which do not need to be compiled, i.e. without an XS-component and even for these modules it is trivially simple to install the MinGW environment and get a compiler which will compile these modules as well. Some modules unfortunately refuse to get installed and for those I switch to PPM.

A very good introduction on how to do all of this was written by syphilis.

CountZero

A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom