Re: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10

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Re^2: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by ramtek (Novice) on Oct 16, 2008 at 22:17 UTC
This was the whole point. AdminMisc is still quite useful but not maintained any longer and annoying to recompile (it deals with the Windows API afterall). If you want to upgrade to Perl 5.10 you won't be able to find a PPM so without a fairly old compiler and the process I posted you would be out of luck UPDATE : OK, I have received a lot of mail since posting this so decided to add support for 5.10 to Roth's existing ppd and host it on my site at http://www.ramtek.us. That ppd should work for ActiveState 5.6,5.8 and 5.10 Enjoy -M	[reply]
Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by EigenFunctions (Beadle) on Jul 28, 2009 at 18:30 UTC
I went to the website, but could find nothing - can you send me a link? Thanks in advance for your support. Thanks, EigenFunctions	[reply]
Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by DaveARoberts (Acolyte) on Sep 10, 2010 at 13:05 UTC
Do you have the setup (and energy) to provide Win32::AdminMisc for ActiveState 5.12 ??? Thanks	[reply]
Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 04, 2009 at 13:44 UTC
This is awesome, thanks so much!	[reply]
Re^2: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2008 at 07:03 UTC
Instead of guessing, find out :) AdminMisc is Roth Consulting property, and they don't dig on Makefile.PL's	[reply]
Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by wol (Hermit) on Oct 16, 2008 at 12:44 UTC
I had a look at the roth website, and all the modules I examined (all both of them) appear to be available under the Artistic License or the GPL. So the good news is that there's nothing stopping anyone from getting the code and fixing the makefile, and making the forked version of the module available to the world. However, the bad news is that there's nothing anyone can do to force that change back onto the roth website (well, unless you're his mum, perhaps) and it takes time and effort to maintain a forked module (otherwise, some poor soul has exactly the same problem with the next bug they want fixed, but doubled). Anyone tried asking nicely? Failing that, does anyone know his mum? -- .sig : File not found.	[reply]
Re^4: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 16, 2008 at 13:15 UTC
Anyone tried asking nicely? Some time back (possibly about 8 years) he was asked (possibly by me ... I can no longer recall with cetainty) why his source distros were not the "usual" cpan-type distro. His reply was that Visual Studio had no need of Makefiles. Those who witnessed that response (including myself) were left with the strong impression that there was no point in "asking nicely". Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^4: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2008 at 13:25 UTC
Who cares? Its not on CPAN, so doesn't follow CPAN guidelines (not having Makefile.PL isn't a bug). I'm sure when someone asks for a perl-5.10 version, he'll upload one.	[reply]
Re^5: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by ramtek (Novice) on Oct 16, 2008 at 22:28 UTC
Re^3: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by vkon (Curate) on Oct 16, 2008 at 07:19 UTC
then, this is the first bug to fix: lack of Makefile.PL	[reply]
Re^4: Compiling Win32::AdminMisc on ActiveState 5.10 by Anonymous Monk on Oct 16, 2008 at 11:56 UTC
You think you're the first in 10 years to think of this idea? You can't fix other people's software http://code.google.com/p/libwin32/source/browse/tags/libwin32/0.07/AdminMisc/Makefile.PL	[reply]