Okay, I've programmed everything I ever needed myself and I'm tired of doing it that way. I yield to the USE clause!

I'm new to the whole PPM (Perl Package Manager) and binaries thingy but sorta figured the PPM thing out. My issue is with these "binaries". Specifically the MySQL one. Now before you flame me and tell me to go to mysql.com, hear me out.

I d/l'ed the mysql binary and openned the .gz and then the .tar file in that. What I see looks like it should be dumped in the Perl/site/lib folder but I see folders (in the archive) that I already have. For fear of overwritting a exisiting file, what is the typical process for installing binaries? Is there EVEN a typical installation process for binaries on Windows-based OSs? (My assumption is 'I don't know')

With that out of the way, anyone with experience installing the MySql binary, please help me out. Let me know the installation pitfalls if any (...what am I saying; there are always pitfalls). ;-p

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Sean Shrum
http://www.shrum.net

In reply to New to the whole BINARIES-thingy by S_Shrum

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